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Piscataquis Biography 



AND FRAGMENTS 



BY 

JOHN FRANCIS SPRAGUE 



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TO THE REV. GEORGE ALLEN MATTHEW.S, OF AUBURNDALE, 

MASSACHl-SETTS, WHOSE KINDNESS TO ME WHILE 

STRUGGLING IN THE MIRE OF MISFORTUNE AND 

GROPING IN THE DARKNESS OF UTTER DESPAIR 

SAVED ME FROM A POSSIBLE FATE THAT I 

DO NOT NOW DARE TO CONTEMPLATE, 

THIS UNASSUMING VOLUME IS 

MOST AFFECTIONATELY AND 

SINCERELY DEDICATED 

BY THE AUTHOR. 



' ' Oy there are voices of the Past, 

Lhiks of a broken eliaiu , 
Wi7igs that can bear nic back to times 

Which camiot come again : 
) 'c'/ God forbid that I should lose 

The echoes that retnai?i I " ' 



AUTHOR'S NOTES. 



" The rank is but the o-uiiiea"s stamp — 
A inairs a man for a" that." 

"TwiCE-TOivD Tale.s " would be an appropriate title to 
much that herein appears, some of it having previously been 
published in the publications of the Maine Historical Society, 
in the Maine Sportsman and other journals, and some are 
memorial proceedings in our courts as they have appeared 
from time to time in the Piscataquis Observer and other local 
papers. It is a partial history of some who have been distin- 
guished in public life in the Pine Tree State, and who have 
abided in Piscataquis County and helped to make its historj^ 
during a generation that is rapidly passing from earthly view. 
They were men of strong personalities and have made an 
indelible impress upon the community. With the exception 
of what is said of Hiram Stevens Maxim, the subjects of 
these sketches have all departed the scenes of this life and 
entered upon that 

•' Sleep that no pahi shall wake." 

To prepare tlie.se brief stories of the.se men's lives for 
preservation in a more permanent form has been the object 
of the writer. They were nearly all my friends and as.sociates 
when in earth life and this has been to me a pleasant though 
somewhat sad duty. 

J. F. S. 

MoNSON, Maine. 



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Author's Notks iii 

Henry Hudson 3 

James Stuart irouMES 7 

Frank A. Hart i:^ 

Augustus Gardner Lebroke lit 

Charles A. Everett 27 

James Sullivan Wiley 37 

Ephraim Flint 8ii 

Cyrus A. Packard 45 

Joseph Darling Brown 41) 

Alexander M. Roiunson 59 

Thomas Davee 67 

Louis Annance 71 

Leonard Hilton 77 

Adams Huse Merp.ili 81 

Sumner A. Patten S3 

Hiram Stevens Maxim 85 

Captain Thomas Robinson 91 

Fragments : 

A Court House Dedication 93 

Chief Ju«itiee Appletoii as a Sel»ec' r>a\vver 94 

Alexander Greemvood 94 

Hannibal Hauilin as a Piscataquis Piscatof 95 

Piscataiiuis in the Constitutional Convention 97 

The Million Acres 97 

111 Memory of a Docj 99 

Our Silent Wards 100 



HENRY HUDSON. 



HENRY HUDSON. 



Henry Hudson was born in Canaan, N. H., October 20, 
1824, and died while on a visit to his native town, Jnne 24, 
1877. He was admitted to membership in the Piscataquis 
County Bar in June, 1849. Having previous!}- settled in 
Guilford, he was in active practice there until within a short 
time of his decease. Guilford was then onl}- a small and 
unimportant town. To-day it is one of the largest and most 
active business centers in the Piscataquis Valle}-, with large 
manufacturing interests, a National Bank, two newspapers, 
and many other substantial evidences of thrift and progress. 
The first seeds of its prosperity were planted through the 
energy and determination of Mr. Hudson, for he was not 
only an able attorney, but a shrewd, far-seeing and broad- 
minded business man as well. The advent of the Bangor and 
Piscataquis Railroad, since absorbed in the Bangor and 
Aroostook System, was the beginning of Guilford's advance- 
ment, and it was almost entirely through the efforts of Mr. 
Hudson that Guilford obtained the excellent railway facili- 
ties which she has ever since enjoyed. 

The Biographical Review of Bo.ston, Vol. 29, page 158, 
says of him: " For years he sustained the reputation of a 
leading lawyer in this (Piscataquis) County. He was active 
and industrious, displaying much energ}- and ambition. His 
extensive practice made him a well-known figure in the 
courts of Piscataquis and Penobscot counties, where he 
fought many hotly contested cases. The income of his busi- 
ness enal)led him to ac(|uire a large estate. 



4 PI.SCATAOUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

A Democrat of the most pronounced type, he sincerely 
believed the fundamental principles of his party to be the 
most substantial basis of a liberal republic, and he made his 
influence felt in both the county and state organizations. 
He was frequently chosen to attend district and state conven- 
tions and was a delegate to the National Convention held in 
New York in 1868. The connnunity had the advantages of 
his services in the capacity of town agent for several years." 

He married Emily F. Martin, who was born in ( luilford, 
Maine, May 13, 1831, daughter of the late Addi.son and 
Lydia (Otis) Martin. Her father, who was a pioneer mer- 
chant and a prominent citizen of Guilford, died in 1876. 
Her mother, who was a relative of General O. O. Howard of 
the United States Army, was killed by lightning July 5, 
1842. The children of Henry Hudson, Sr., ami his wife 
were Henr}-, now an active business man and a leading 
attorney of the county; Micajah and James, both of whom 
are now and have for several years been in public life and 
are merchants in Guilford. 

At the time of his death the writer of these lines, in one 
of the local papers said of Mr. Hudson : " Many of his argu- 
ments in court were of such a character as to entitle him to a 
high position among the ablest and most eloquent law3'ers in 
Maine. His integrity was never doul)ted among his friends, 
clients and associates. There are but few instances among 
business men where any one ever observed all verbal agree- 
ments more strictly and sacredly than Mr. Hudson. He was 
ever the friend of the poor man, appreciated and realized his 
wants and was noted throughout his life for his sympathy 
and material assistance to mau}^ who were never able to 
repay him, and often tried causes in court for such without 
hope of reward or remuneration. To a friend he was always 
true. As a comi)anion he was genial, cordial and warm- 
hearted, his manner always pleasing and attractive. His 
was one of those ])ositive, daring natures, which is certain to 
make its mark in any age of the world and upon any quarter 
of the globe." 



PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMKNTS. 5 

At the September Term (1877), of the vSupreme Court held 
at Dover, the following resolutions, adopted by the members 
of the bar, were read to the Court by Ephraim Flint, where- 
upon the Court responded, and ordered the resolutions to be 
placed on the records of the court : 

L'r.^n/red: That by the deatli of our lanieuted brother, Henry Hudson 
Esq., the people of this county have lost an eneroetle and useful citizen,' 
and this bar a successful lawyer and wise counselor, distinouislicd for 
his devotion and zeal to the cause of Ins clients; and that this bar will 
cliensh in tlieir remembrance his noble and generous qualities of heart. 

ll,'sf>IrM: That the .Secretary of this Bar, transmit a copy of these 
resolutions to the family of the deceased, and that Bis Honor, the 
Jud.o-e. be requested to order them placed on the records of tliis court. 

In the convention of 18G8, above referred to, Mr. Hudson's 
colleague from the Fourth Congressional District was the late 
Marcellus F:mery of Bangor. Richard D. Rice, Samuel J. 
Anderson, David R. Hastings and James C. Madigan were the 
delegates-at-large from Maine in this convention. 



JAMES STUART HOLMES. 



JAMES STUART HOLMES, 



THK riONKKK r.AWVKK OF PISCATAQUIS COUNTY 



James Stuart Holmes was the second law^^er to com- 
mence the practice of the profession in that part of Maine 
that is now Piscataquis county. Although one other lawyer, 
David Aigrey, had preceded him by a few months at Sebec, 
yet as Mr. Aigrey remained here but a short time before he 
went to a Western State, Mr. Hohnes may well be denomin- 
ated the pioneer of the profession in this (Piscataquis) 
count3^ 

He was born November lo, in the year 1792, in what was 
at that date the town of Hebron, now Oxford, in the county 
of Oxford, that portion having been set of^ into a new town 
in 1829. His father was Captain James Holmes, a native of 
Plymouth, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who 
married Miss Jerusha Rawson of Sutton, Massachusetts, and 
soon afterward moved to the district of Maine. James Stuart 
was the eldest of nine children, eight sons and one daughter. 

The Holmeses claim to have descended from the Stuart 
royal famil}' of I{ngland. James' bojdiood and early j-outh 
were passed on his father's farm among the hills of Oxford, 
which have produced .so large an array of noted and talented 
men. He attended the town schools and Hebron Academy 
until he was thoroughl}' prepared for college. He graduated 
from Brown University at Providence, Rhode Island, in the 
year 1819. He was a classmate of Horace Mann, the dis- 
tinguished educator, and for man}' years he held correspond- 
ence with him. He immediately entered the law office of the 



8 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY ANIJ FRAGMENTS. 

Honorable Enoch lyincoln, afterward a Representative in 
Congress and Governor of the State. Mr. lyincohi was then 
a practicing lawyer at Paris Hill. He remained here four 
3-ears pursuing his legal .studies, varied only by occasional 
visits to Portland, where he was the guest and friend of 
Honorable vStephen Longfellow, a distinguished lawyer and 
politician of that time, but now especially remembered as the 
father of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, America's eminent 
poet. At this time he enjoyed the acquaintance and friend- 
shi]i of the future author of "Evangeline." In 1878, 
a little more than a year before his death, Mr. Holmes 
visited the poet at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 
and then these old and long parted friends revived and lived 
over again the recollections of by-gone days. 

In 1822, after admission to the Bar, he settled in the new 
town of Foxcroft, in what was then Penobscot County, on 
the northerl}^ bank of the Piscataquis River, where his two 
Ijrothers, vSalmon and Cyrus, had preceded him in 1818. He 
here opened a law office and commenced the practice of his 
profession. In the autumn of the same year he opened and 
taught a high school for one term, which was incorporated 
the next winter (1823) by the Legislature as "Foxcroft 
Academy " with a small grant of land. This is a successful 
school today and a monument of honor to its founder. He 
was a member of its original board of trustees and served 
without interruption until his decease. He always took great 
interest in this institution of learning and never, until the 
last year of his life, when he had become too feeble from age 
and disea.se, had he failed to attend an academical examina- 
tion of the .students and seldom any meeting of the board of 
trustees. 

From the time of his fir.st entering upon his profession 
to about the years 1888 or 1839 he had an extensive 
and lucrative practice, though directly in competition with 
such men, eminent for legal learning as well as for forensic 
talent, as Honorable John Appleton, afterward Chief Justice, 
Gorham Parks, Jonathan P. Rogers, Jacob McGaw, Albert 



PISCATAOUIvS HIOGKAPHY AN]:) FRAGMKNTS. 9 

G. Jewett and others at that period who were all intellectual 
giants, 5-et he was regarded as the peer of the ablest. For a 
time he was a law partner with the Honorable James vS. 
Wiley, at one time a Representative in Congress from this 
district. 

The organization of the new county of Piscataquis pro- 
duced radical changes in the legal business in this region 
and the fraternit}' as well. It introduced new men with new 
methods and narrowed the field of labor. From this time 
onward his practice declined until he entirely disappeared 
from the scenes of a former active life and his retirement 
became permanent. The late Joseph D. Brown of Foxcroft, 
and a former member of the Piscataquis Bar, was a contem- 
porary with Mr. Holmes. During his lifetime I addressed 
a letter to Mr. Brown, asking him for information in regard to 
Mr. Holmes, and in his reply to me he says: 

" I well remember a remarkable scene in the year 18413, in 
which he (Holmes) was an active participant. The Adven- 
ti.sts or followers of William Miller were numerous in the 
neighboring town of Atkinson. Their preaching of the 
second coming of Christ was deemed a heres}- by leading- 
citizens and members of other churches. Some of these 
citizens who opposed the Millerites went to Dover and insti- 
tuted legal proceedings against Israel Damon and several 
others who were preachers and leaders in the Miller faith, 
under the vagrant act. In the old church on the hill they 
were arraigned before Moses Scott, a justice of the peace. 

Without pecuniar}^ compensation Mr. Holmes volunteered 
his services for the defen.se. For four days the court room 
was crowded with people. During the whole time there was 
a succession of pra^-ing, singing of hynuis, plaintive and 
exhilarating, as only the old-style Millerites could sing, 
shouting, jeers, groans and applause, but above all these, 
occasional distracting sounds, could l)e heard Mr. Holmes" 
eloquent argument for religious freedom and toleration, and 
the right of every person to worship God according to the 
dictates of his own conscience, under his own vine and fig 



10 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

tree. At the close of the trial the prisoners were promptly 
divScharged. 

At that time he had lost none of his earh- vigor and the 
fire of his oratory had not grown dim. I remember it as one 
of the grandest defenses of religions toleration and freedom 
that it has ever been my pleasure to listen to or read of." 

He was also one of the earliest in this county to join the 
order of Free Masons. Soon after he came to Foxcroft he 
was made a Mason by Penobscot Lodge, then of Garland, 
now of Dexter. At that time the highway's were impassable 
for carriages, and he, in compan}- with Honorable C. P. 
Chandler, used to make the journey, a distance of ten miles, 
on horseback, to attend the meetings of the lodge. This 
was before there was any lodge in this section. vSubsequently 
he was instrumental in starting Mosaic Lodge at Foxcroft, 
in 1826, and was one of its charter members. He was its 
first master after the reorganization of the same in 1845. 

The only civil office, other than municipal, that he ever 
held, was that of chairman of the board of county commis- 
sioners for Piscataquis Count^^ to which he was appointed by 
Governor Edward Kent, in 18o8. He served on the board of 
school committee for many years, and was alvva^'S dee])ly 
interested in all things pertaining to education. Religiousl}' 
he was a liberal, though he affiliated with the Universalists. 

In 1838 he united in marriage with Jane S. Patten, and a 
family of six sons and one daughter were the fruits of this 
union. Three of his sons died in early manhood. Politi- 
cally he was first a National Republican, then a Whig and 
later a Republican, with which party he always after voted. 
As a National Republican he sui)i)orted the administration of 
John Ouincy Adams. He hated Andrew Jackson, and loved 
Henry Cla3^ as the men of that day loved and hated these 
great leaders. At the State election of 1879, although 
feeble and in a dying state, he insisted on being carried to 
the polls to cast, as he termed it, "his last vote for freedom." 

He died peacefulh- at his home in Foxcroft, December oO, 
1871). He was a natural scholar and continued to cultivate a 



PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 11 

classical taste, reading Latin and Greek to the close of his 
life. His books were his constant and loved companions, 
and during- his later years he sought their compan}^ more 
than at any other part of his life, and was found among them 
oftener than among the haunts of men. 

For much of the data contained in this paper I am 
indebted to the late Joseph D. Brown, Esq., of Foxcroft, 
before mentioned. I also herewith append the following 
extract from an article written by the late Honorable 
Augustus G. Lebroke of Foxcroft, which was published in 
the Piscataquis Observer, January 15, 1880: 

••.Mr. Holmes was a lawyer of tlie old scliool, educated at a time 
wlien special pleadings with all their exactions aud subtleties were in 
full vogue. (Quackery in active law practice was then next to impossible. 

He had at (tne time, and especially before 1888, up to which time this 
county was a part of Penobscot, a larger aud more lucrative practice 
thau any other lawyer ever had here. 

lie was successful in the proper sense of the term, among such 
distinguished contemporaries as John Appleton, Edward Kent, Cutting, 
Kellej', Orr, Longfellow, Greeuleaf, Fesseuden the elder and others, 
whose names make illustrious tlie pages of our jurisprudence. Mr. 
Holmes" legal knowledge was not the reflection from interior minds. 
He sought learning from the maxims of the civil law, IJoman jurispru- 
dence and from the great masters of the profession on the continent as 
well as from those great moulders and architects of the English law, 
Littleton, ('oke and l>acon and, later, IJlackstone, Mansfield, Ellen- 
borough and others. He sought for priuci])les and disliked empiricism.'" 



FRANK A. HART. 



FRANK A. HART. 



At the February Term (1888), of the Supreme Court at 
Dover, Charles A. Everett, President of the Piscataquis Bar, 
addressed the Court, and in appropriate remarks alhided 
to the death of one of its members, Frank A. Hart, who had 
departed from this life since the last term of that Court. He 
referred feelingly to his past life and labors, and informed the 
Court that a committee selected by the Bar had prepared 
resolutions in honor of his memory. 

Henry Hudson of Guilford then spoke as follows: 

May it Pi^ease the Court: — Since the last term of this 
Court, a sad bereavement has fallen upon us in the death of 
one of the youngest members of this Bar. Brother Frank A. 
Hart passed quietly away in November last, at the home of 
his parents in Willimantic. It was little thought at the last 
term of Court that our ranks were so soon to be thinned by 
death ; and least of all was it thought that Brother Hart was 
to be the one. At that time he was apparently in good 
health. Although from birth he suffered from phj'sical 
infirmities, yet he always enjoyed good bodily health. But a 
fatal malady must have been insidiously undermining his 
system. 

Brother Hart was born in Willimantic. His father has 
long resided in that place. Although suffering from pln^si- 
cal infirmities, such as would have deterred a less courageous 
and energetic person, he earl}' manifested a disposition and 
desire to obtain an education and make his mark in the 
world. His father's circumstances were such that he could 
not render that assistance that he would have wished. But 
this did not discourage or deter Brother Hart from his pur- 
pose. With that energy and zeal which ever characterized 



14 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

him, he set to work, and how well he accomplished the task, 
his life, although brief, well illustrated. He was always 
cheerful, alwa3's saw something to accomplish, and was never 
discouraged even under adverse circumstances. He sup- 
ported all progressive enterprises, he was broad and liberal 
in his views, and a strong advocate of all that would improve 
the advantages of the common people. Life is dear to all. 
It is hard for those who have accomplished life's work to die ; 
but it is still harder for those who are just entering upon the 
stage of action and have their life work to perform, to be 
stricken by death. This is especially true in the case of 
Brother Hart. He had arrived at that point in liis life where 
as he expressed it to me, only a few months before his death, 
"He could see his way through." But whether we would or 
not, the inevitable nu:st be submitted to. Who can say that 
this life though brief was not worth living? Is it not worthy 
of enuilation by those who with more favorable opportunities 
become tlisheartened and fail to make the most of that with 
which God has endowed them? At the request of my 
Brothers Peaks and Sprague, who were appointed with me as 
a committee of the Bar to draft resolutions, I offer the 
following : 

WiiKitKAS : The iiieiiihers of the lMse;it:iquis r>ar (le^iire to record tlieh- 
appreciatiou of the character and ability of oui- deceased brother-, Fraidv 
A. Hart, who was a member of this Bar, and also express our deep 
sense of the loss sustained by this I>ar as well as by his relatives and 
friends. Therefore, 

litsiilri'd: That in his death there has been taken from the Bar, one 
who was ever mindful for the interests of his clients, active in all pro- 
s>ressive enteri^rises, courteous and genial to all, zealous iu whatever he 
undertook, amlntious to succeed iu life and a striking illustration of 
what can t)e accomplished by will and perseverance; and tliat, his life 
under advei'se circumstances, although brief, is worthy of emulation. 

Ih'sdlri'd : That the members of this Bar extend to his parents their 
synipntliy in the loss of so worthy a sou. 

Jicsolrcd: That these resolutions be entered on the records of this 
court and a copy be transmitted by tlie clerk to his parents. 

IIenuv Hudson, ] Committee 
J. F. SruAGUE, I" of 
J. H. Peaks. J the Bar. 



PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 15 

A. G. Lebroke of Foxcroft, moved to second the resolutions 
and spoke briefly. He felt that the memorial services were 
ver}' appropriate and was glad that the venerable President of 
the Bar Association, Hon. C. A. Everett, was present to pre- 
side, and that the production of the resolutions had been com- 
mitted to so able hands as Brother Hudson and his associates. 

Mr. L. said that it might seem sometimes on occasions of 
this kind that out of an abundance of charity and by guid- 
ance of the maxim that we should say nothing except good 
concerning the dead, the virtues of those departed might be 
extolled while their faults might be lightly passed. But 
while listening to the resolutions he thought all the words in 
relation to our deceased brother, Frank A. Hart, .so well 
expressed, were absolutely and in sacred truth, richl)^ 
deserved. 

Mr. Hart in all things was most diligent and faithful. His 
observance of truth under all circumstances never deviated 
nor faltered. His physical infirmity, the speaker had at first 
thought, might be an objection to his stud}- and practice of 
law. But during the two 3'ears' study in the office of him- 
.self and Mr. Parsons, Mr. Hart so patiently and gracefully 
bore his own afflictions that nobody ever thought of being 
annoyed therein'. He was enthusiastic in his support of 
religious and educational work. He had a keen appreciation 
of the present and a full hope of the future. To him there 
was a reality in the expression : 

'* Life is real, life is earnest, 

And the grave is not its goal ; 

Dnst thou art, to dust returnest, 

Was not spoken of the soul." 

Mr. Hart was laudably ambitious and if Providence had 
vouchsafed to him the allotted years of life, he would 
undoubtedly have risen high in his chosen profession. He 
loved life and for himself might say : 

■' For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, 

This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned ; 
Ijeft the warm precincts of the cheerful day, 

Noi' cast one longing, lingering l()()k behind." 



IT) PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

His life was an honor to his name and a legac}^ of good 
fame to our fraternity. 

J. Ij. Peaks of Dover then spoke as follows; 

May it Please the Court : — I was not .so well acquainted 
with Brother Hart as were some of the other members of the 
Bar, but he had one characteristic which alwaj's impressed 
itself upon me with great force. I allude to his enthusiasm. 
He had great enthusiasm in everN-thing he did. He was an 
enthusiastic student. He was enthusiastic in educational 
matters. He had great enthusiasm in his religious views. 
In fact, his whole soul seemed filled with enthusiasm, and I 
have often thought that had he been an able-bodied man, his 
enthusiasm would have led him into the service of his 
country. Because I believe that the bravest deeds of brave 
men were performed b\^ the force of enthusiasm. As a 
member of the committee I have subscribed to the resolu- 
tions. As a member of the Bar, I agree with the spirit of 
the resolutions, and what has been said by ni}^ brothers here. 

J. F. Sprague upon that occasion, among other things, 
said: "We who suffer from physical disability are too apt 
to be imbued with the spirit which inspired lyord Byron, who 
was himself crippled and who in the ' Deformed Trans- 
formed,' from the bitterness of his heart exclaimed: 

1 have no horae, no kin. 

No kind — uot made like (jther creatures, 

To share their sports or pleasures. 

It is often so with such who are thus unfortunate. 
Frankly I can say that I speak somewhat from personal 
experience, as well as from observation when I aver this. 
The strong have no conception of the dark world of misery 
in which many of the weak continually dwell, yet such was 
not the case with our late brother; his misfortunes which 
would have embittered other lives and made other natures 
gloomy and cynical did not affect him in this manner. It 



PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 17 

was never for a single moment a shadow .upon liis spirit. 
He loved the world and enjoj'ed life, and believed in man- 
kind just as easil}' and just as naturally as though he had no 
burden of this kind to carr\- ; he never thought for a moment 
with Byron that 

'The veiy waters mock mo,* 

but his views of life were philosophical and sensible and 
entirely free from repinings and murmurings." 

Judge Virgin presided and responded to the remarks made 
by the members of the Bar appropriately and ordered the 
resolutions spread upon the records of the court. 



AUGUSTUS GARDNER LEBROKE 



AUGUSTUS GARDNER LEBROKE. 



Augustus Gardner IvEbroke, for three decades, was a 
prominent personage in the affairs of Piscataquis county, and 
during nearly all of the time was identified with the 
hivStory of Maine, as a leading member of the dominant 
political party, as an able lawyer, as a legislator and public 
speaker of wide fame, in state and national political 
campaigns. 

He was born in Paris, Maine, February 9, 1823. His 
father was Jacob lycbroke, who married Martha Foster, of 
the same famil}' as is the Honorable Enoch Foster of Bethel, 
formerly one of the justices of the Supreme Court of this 
.state, and now a leading lawyer in the city of Portland. 

Jacob lycbroke was the son of James La Brook, who was a 
native of France and came to this country in the fleet of war 
vessels sent here during the American Revolution b}^ the 
government of FVance. At the close of the war he settled in 
Pembroke, Massachusetts, and afterwards migrated to 
Hebron in the province of Maine, finally settling in Paris. 
James La Brook's wife was a Gardner, one of whose familj^ 
has since been Governor of the Commonwealth of Massa- 
chusetts. The family name was gradually changed to 
Lebroke ; the early records give it both as La Brook and 
Lebroke. About the year 1828 Jacob Lebroke with his 
family moved to the new town of Foxcroft, in what is now 
Piscataquis count}^ and was among its earliest settlers. 

The subject of this sketch began the battle of life when a 
boy, with tlie same vigor and energy that characterized him 
in all of his later years. His youth was subject to the hard- 
ships and privations which were a necessary part of the life 



20 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

of all pioneers of eavStern Maine. He labored in the cedar 
swamps, cutting trees and shaving shingles winters, and 
worked in his father's fields summers, and yet he found time 
to attend the common schools which are the nurser}^ of 
Maine's intelligence and learning. He readil}' became the 
master of all that w^as then taught in his town school, and 
graduated with honors at the Foxcroft Academy. Before 
attaining the age of maturity he entered upon a successful 
career as a school teacher in his own and neighboring towns. 
At other times he served as clerk in stores. He commenced 
the study of law with the late Honorable James S. Holmes of 
Foxcroft and completed his studies with two eminent lawyers 
in Bangor, Honorable C. P. Chandler and Honorable Albert 
W. Paine. 

In 1849, when the gold fever raged in the Eastern States, 
he went to California but remained there less than two years. 
February 20, 1857, he w^as admitted to the bar in Dover, to 
practice in the courts of Maine, and inunediately entered 
upon the practice of his profession in Foxcroft village, and 
remained there until the grim messenger silenth^ summoned 
him from his labors in the twilight hours of the nineteenth 
day of July, in the year 1889. He at once attained a high 
position as a counsellor; he was cautious and prudent. He 
fully canvassed his opponent's position, while he readily 
comprehended all the difficulties of his clients. His profes- 
sional zeal and industry were seldom if ever surpassed by 
any in the profession. His client's cause was his own cause, 
to the fullest degree. He loved the law, its intricacies, its 
history, and its traditions captivated his mind. Nothing in 
this world fascinated him as nuich as a legal problem. While 
he was always deeply interested in all the political questions 
of the day and discussed them with great ardor, while he 
was a devotee of literature and philosophy, while agricul- 
tural subjects at times arrested his attention, and while he 
was ever active in promoting progress in his town and 
county, all of these were subordinate to his devotion to the 



PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 21 

law. As an advocate before juries and courts, his masterly 
eloquence made him eminently successful. 

In religious beliefs Mr. Lebroke was in the best and 
highest sense of the term a free thinker. Although as to the 
innumerable speculative creeds relating to the religions of 
men, he was an agnostic, yet his faith in God and in a future 
life was steadfast and unwavering. 

Politicall)^ Mr. Lebroke was a Republican. He made his 
debut in the political arena at a most important epoch in the 
history of this nation. While incipient war in the new-made 
territories was shaking the ver}- foundations of our govern- 
ment, when the contest between freedom and slaver}^ was at its 
height he entered the conflict and soon became a power in the 
strife. During the excitements and intensity of the Kansas 
period he very quickl}^ earned the fame for forensic ability 
which remained his until the day of his death, which avowed 
him as the peer of the greatest orators that this State has 
produced, and which easily gave him an equal footing with 
the many public speakers of national fame of that remarka- 
ble time. 

He helped form the Republican party. His services as an 
advocate of its principles were ever sought after, and his 
voice has been heard in its behalf, not only in his own but in 
many other vStates of the Union. He was born an aboli- 
tionist. His very nature made him hate slaverj-. He could 
no more have espoused the cause of the slave-master than he 
could have defended the inquisition. He S3anpathized deeply 
with every living creature that was oppressed. "Man's 
inhumanity to man" was no less abhorrent in his eyes than 
his cruelty to any other living thing of God's fair earth. 
None of his proniinent characteristics were more marked or 
more universally understood b}' all his friends than this one. 
These sentiments were a part of his being ; it was, therefore, 
l^ut natural that he should early battle for the rights of man. 

Only once did he deviate from the beaten course marked 
out by the national leaders of this great political organiza- 
tion. When the rupture in the party between President 



22 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

Grant and Horace Greeley, Charles vSumner and others 
occurred he voted for and supported Mr. Greeley for Presi- 
dent ; he subsequently returned to his first affiliations and his 
valued services were properly recognized. 

In 1858, he was elected a member of the Maine Legisla- 
ture for the session of 1859. Although he had then been 
a member of the bar less than two years he was a member of 
the committee on legal affairs and took a prominent part in 
the labors and debates of this session ; he was associated 
with and met in public discussion such eminent men as James 
G. Blaine, William H. McCrillis, Frederick A. Pike, Neal 
Dow and Ephraim K. vSmart. Again, in 1871, he was a 
member of the House, serving with marked ability, and 
being a member of the judiciary committee. For ten con- 
secutive years he w^as county attorney, and unusually 
successful as such ; for twenty-five years, with the exception 
of one year, he was the agent or law officer of the town of 
his residence. He had also done service as a member of the 
Republican, state and other political committees. 

In 1882 he was elected a member of the vState Senate and 
re-elected in 1884, serving through the sessions of 1883 and 
1885: he was a member of the judiciary connnittee at each 
session and its chairman in 1883. As a legislator he was no 
less eminent than as a law3'er. 

During his last term as vSenator it was the writer's good 
fortune to enjoy the privilege of his daily association, his 
intimacy and his counsels. His brilliant talents, his wonder- 
ful power in debate, his remarkable faculty in the use of 
language, his well-founded knowledge of legal principles, 
his practical knowledge of the world, his marked originality 
and unique mode of expression, together with his genial and 
pleasant manners and forceful and impressive personality, 
made him an attractive feature in Maine's halls of legisla- 
tion, and added materially to his influence and position while 
a member. Honorable Josiah Crosby of Dexter, in an article 
published in the Eastern State shortly after the decease of 
Mr. Lebroke, in speaking of him, said : 



PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. J.) 

" So great was his natural talent for extempore speaking, 
and so much had he improved it by cultivation and practice, 
that it was reall}^ much easier for him to make a good oral 
argument or speech upon any public occasion than to read a 
written argument, though well prepared. In his last argu- 
ment delivered at the law court, he had a well-constructed 
printed argument in his hands but paid no attention to it iii 
the delivery, and really made a better argument than the 
previously printed one, though written with much care." 

On October 9, 1889, when the Supreme Court was con- 
vened at Dover, Chief Justice John A. Peters presiding, 
Joseph D. Brown, Alexander M. Robinson and Kphraim 
Flint having been chosen as a committee of the Piscataquis 
Bar for the purpose, presented resolutions in respect of the 
memor}' of Mr. Lebroke. I subjoin the following extracts 
from the tributes offered by the members of the Bar on this 
occasion. 

Mr. Joseph D. Brown said: 

" While he was a member of the Senate in 1883, the revis- 
ion of the .statutes was completed, and the book as now in 
use, bears the impress of his hand and mind. The vigilance 
with which the rights and interests of his constituents were 
guarded and the favoring acts of the lyCgislature are known 
and appeciated by all intelligent citizens of the county." 

The Honorable Alexander M. Robinson said : 

" He was emphatically a self-made man. Possessing more 
of genius than of talent, I think he was generously endowed 
by the hand of Nature with both these choicest of intellectual 
gifts. The French blood in his veins, inherited from his father, 
predominated, and he was born a polemic controversialist. 

During his services as a legislator, he was uniformly placed 
on the judiciary committee, and at one session was its chair- 
man, and there was probabl}^ no member of the profession in 
the state more familiar with its statutes than Mr. Lebroke. 
His official duties as County Attorne}^ were ably performed 



24 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

and he was as clannislil}^ lo3'al to the rights and interests of 
the town of his adoption as was ever a Highlander to his 
native heath in the da^^s of Montrose or Tyochiel. 

The style of his advocacy was apt to be florid and rhetori- 
cal but his cajDacions memory and masterl}' command of the 
English tongue made him always an attractive speaker and 
often an impressive and successful advocate. 

His arguments to the jury were often enlivened by wit and 
satire, weapons always ready at hand, which he wielded with 
the skill of a master. Like most men of his temperament, 
he jDlaced a high estimate on his own achievements, was fret- 
full}^ impatient of criticism, fond of flattery and covetous of 
praise, characteristics not objectionable at all when held 
within proper Ijounds. Kind hearted and largely sympa- 
thetic, in his fitful moods he was easily moved to laughter or 
tears." 

The writer of these lines at that time said : 

"I was intimately and closel}- acquainted with the 
deceased since I was first admitted to the Bar, some fourteen 
years ago, but my earliest recollection of him dates back 
years before that. It was when I was a small boy and 
during the exciting Kansas episode in our national politics. 
In company with several men and boj-s, I went one 
evening to the 'town house' in Sangerville, and for 
the first time saw Mr. lycbroke and listened to one of 
his speeches. The scene is vividly impressed upon ni}' 
mind ; within the grim walls, dimly lighted by tlie old 
oil lamps, was a large crowd of people, man}- of them 
opposed to the speaker in their political sentiments and 
yet he swayed them as the wind sways the leaves upon 
the forest trees ; I saw strong men weep when he eloquently 
painted the wrongs and oppressions of the colored men and 
recited the cruelties of border-ruffianism. I shall never 
forget the scene." 



PIvSCATAOUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 25 

Honorable Willis E. Parsons on this occasion said: 

"He was always kind to the poor; many will miss the 
bounties received at his hand; frequently have I known him 
to espouse the cause of the lowly and right the wrongs of the 
humble, without recompense or even hope of reward, to his 
own detriment and perhaps the loss of a more wealthy and 
influential client." 

In speaking of his well known love for the l)rute creation 
and the tenacity with which he pursued violaters of the laws 
against cruelties to animals, Mr. Parsons also said : 

" vSo noted had he become for his gratuitous protection to 
them that even the school children passing in the street, on 
seeing a horse abused would sa}^ : 'We will tell Mr. I^el)roke.' 
And tell him they did, and I have seen him follow the little 
child into the street to find the animal and then reprimand 
the cruel driver or, if necessary, compel him by prosecution 
to properly care for his beast." 

Among other members of the Bar who spoke in eulogy of 
the deceased were Mr. Henry Hudson, Honorable James S. 
Wiley and Honorable Ephraim Flint, all of which were 
responded to in an approppriate manner by the Court. 

During his life he became a mend^er of the great benevo- 
lent order known as the Odd P'ellows, and he loved its 
principles with all the intensit}' of his nature. His brethren 
honored him with the highest place within the gift of a 
subordinate lodge and his relations with this brotherhood 
were ever pleasant and beneficial, both to him and his 
a.ssociates. 

Nearly all of the lodges of the county were in attendance 
at the time of his burial. His remains repose peacefully 
where they were placed by the rites of this fraternit}^ in the 
Foxcroft cemetery. On the l>ank of the gentle river Piscata- 
quis that he loved so well in life and often apostrophized in 
speaking, he sleeps the sleep that knows no waking. 



CHARLES A. EVERETT. 



CHARLES A. EVERETT. 



At the September term of the vSupreme Judicial Court at 
Dover (1890) Henry Hudson addressed the court and offered 
the following resolutions : 

],'i's(i/r(_-<l : Tliut liy the death of oui- lamented lirdthcr. (liarles A. 
Everett, the people of tliis eounty liave lofit an exeinplary aud useful 
eiti/eu and this Har a successful lawyer and wise counselor, distin- 
tjuished for his devotion and zeal to liis clients; and that this I>ar will 
cherish in their reniend)rance liis true aud noble ([ualilies of heait. 

Ji't-sdlrcd : That the secretary of this association transmit a copy of 
these resolutions to the fanuly of the deceased and that His Houor, tlie 
•Fudn'e, be rcipiested to order them spread upon the records of this court. 

IIknky Hudson, 
j. f. s prague, 

.1. B. PlCAKS. 

Henr\' Hutlson said : 

"May it Please Your Honor: — On the fourth day of 
March, 1890, death removed from this Bar its oldest member, 
Charles A. Kverett. Admitted to the Bar prior to the 
organization of this county, his period of practice ante-dated 
the birth of nearh' all the members of this Bar. He was 
born in Meredith, N. H., in 1815. His earl}' j'outh was 
spent in New Hampshire. In 1831 he came with his father's 
famih' to the town of Dover. Shortly after this he entered 
Waterville College, where he remained nearly two 3'ears. 
On leaving college he entered upon the stud}' of law and in 
1887 was admitted to the Bar in Penobscot county. 

He was appointed the first County Attorney of this county. 
In 18.")4 he was a member of Governor Crosby's council. At 
the vSeptember election, LSfiT), he was elected Judge of Probate. 
This ofhce he resigned in 18G6, when he left this state and 
went vSouth, returning in IST'J. In 187.') he was again elected 



28 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMKNTS. 

County Attorney of this county. Always a firm V^eliever in 
the principles of the Republican party and when occasion 
required ready to assert his views, yet he was not given to 
politics and cared but little for it ; his tastes and inclina- 
tions moved in other channels than politics. He was not 
endowed with the qualifications that make successful jioliti- 
cians. I never knew Brother Everett until his return from 
the South in 1872. My first impressions of him were far 
from favorable. I thought him cold, distant and austere. 
When I went to Dover and opened an office in 187") I first 
canie to know him and found my first impressions of him 
were far from the truth. From that time until his death I 
was on most intimate terms with him. I was with liim to 
quite an extent. I was with him in his office and his home ; 
he was frequentl}- at my home. When he was a friend, no 
one was ever a truer friend. Friendship with him meant 
something. His friendship was lasting. Instead of being an 
austere and distant person he was the oppo.site. He alwa3's 
had a cheerful and pleasant word under adverse circum- 
stances. 

He was a kind father and devoted husl:)and. In no place 
will he be more missed than in his own home. To the 
younger mendjers of the Bar he was ever read}- to give his 
opinions on questions of law. No young man ever asked him 
a question but he found him ready and willing to answer. 

His rank as a lawyer is well known. Thoroughh' versed 
in the principles of the common law, he was ahvays well 
e(j[uipped. In the trial of causes he could at one time be 
humorous and at another time be sarcastic. None had 
greater power to sa\' so much in so few words. He was 
incisive and forcible. He was frank and open in all things; 
he hated hypocrisy. But he is gone. His place is vacant. 
We feel his absence and mourn his loss. 

With the pernnssion of Your Honor, I now present the 
resolutions, unanimously adoi)ted by the Bar, and move that 
the same be spread upon the records." 

Remarks were also made bv FyX-Governor Davis. 



I'ISCATAOIUS HIOCrRArilV AND I'K AGINI KNTS. 29 

Colonel Peaks would have spoken in eulog}- but at the 
time was confined to his house !)>• sickness. 

J. F. Spragvie of Monson, said : 

"May it Pi,I':a.sk thi-: Court: — In L,ord Byron's famous 
inscription on a monument that he erected over the remains 
of his favorite dog. Boatswain, occur these words: 

•O. mail I tlinii teclilf tenant (it an lidiir. 
Debased l)y slaxiM'y oi' cnirupt l)y iK)wer. 
Wlio knows tliee well, must (jiiit tliee witli (lisiiu-;t: 
Degraded mass of animated dust. 
Tliy love is lust, tliy frieiidshiji all a tdieat. 
'I'hy smile liyiioeiisy. tli> wtirds deeeit.' 

vSuch sentiments as these may have caused the world to 
look upon Byron as a cynic, \et ever\- life has undoubtedly 
had its bitter experiences which have been only too convinc- 
ing that there is very much truth in these lines. Ever\- life 
pathway is more or less marred with the ruins of hopes 
stranded by broken pledges and frieiulships betrayed. When, 
therefore, we have had one whose life's history has been in 
every way, by its practices as well as its precepts, directly 
opposed to this dark picture of one of the common weak- 
nes.ses of humanitw it behooves us to give it more than 
casual notice. 

The life of our late Brother Kverett was an example of 
fidelity and truth, the highest type of loyalty to friends, of 
undimmed honor and uncompromising devotion to principle. 
It is oiiIn- the truth to add that he was also ecpially uncom- 
promising to his foes. Living in a world of deceit and 
hypocrisw he never knew how to decei\e or betray or to 
practice treason in an\- form. No one who knew him well 
can possiljly conceive of his shrinking for an instant, from 
performing a duty of life, l)ecause to do so would lessen his 
])opularity with the multitude. His devotion to the cau.se of 
a friend would not ]iermit him to e\-en li.sten to his censure 
without vigorousl\- defending him, much less could he have 
ever stab])ed him in the dark, 1 am utterh- tmable to imagine 



30 PI.SCxVTAUUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FKAGMENTvS. 

him refraining from fulfilling an obligation or from serving a 
friend because his own interests might thereby be jeopardized. 

Whatever else may be said of him, of his abilities, his 
peculiarities, his strength and his weaknesses, in my judg- 
ment, his leading and controlling characteristic was his being 
so remarkably free from guile, craft or dissembling. That 
famed sentiment of Talleyrand, that language is be.st used to 
conceal thought, or words to that effect, could never have 
been applied to him. He used plain, unand^iguous Saxon, 
not to deceive, but to express his real thoughts, his true 
meaning, his whole intention, and his entire conviction upon 
the subject or about aii}^ person in which he was interested, 
and he had the courage to always express his actual .senti- 
ments under all circumstances. vSuch a man could not be 
other than hone.st and upright in other matters. I believe 
him to have been thoroughly honest and sincere in all things. 

Never called to positions in peace or in war that the world 
honors as exalted ones, he, in the battle of life, proved to be 
a hero ; for the highest courage is that which ever dares to 
do what is right and always fears to do what is wrong. His 
success as a lawyer will be referred to by those more compe- 
tent than myself. That he was a peer of the ablest at our 
Bar is only the truth. 

He loved his profession and was always intensely interested 
in the cause of his client, whose interests he shielded with an 
unwavering fidelity. Kvery trust imposed upon him he held 
as sacred. His word about a Inisine.ss or a professional 
tran.saction was as good as his bond. No lawyer was ever 
more industrious than he. His life work has been an emi- 
nently successful one, because he has made the world better 
for his having lived in it, and because he never surrendered 
to the wrong. We are all rapidl\- moving towards — 
•'I'lic kiH'll, I lie .shroud, the muttock and the grave, 
riic di'('|>. damp vault, tlu' dai'kiiess :iiid the worm." 

We shall soon l)e beyond the mysteries of this life, 
removed from its friction and shadows. We are none of us 
exempt from the faults which are so opposed to the virtues 



PISCATAOUIvS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 31 

and the man}' traits which made our late brother's life an 
exalted one. For the remainder of the brief time that we 
have on this side of the dark river, can we honor iiis memory 
more than to renew to-day our determination to cultivate 
those high qualities which his life so forcibly illustrated?" 

Honorable Josiah Crosby : 

"I presume I had a longer accjuaintance with Brother 
Everett than any other memlier of this Bar. I well 
remember when he came to Dover in his father's famih^ in 
1831. His father purchased land U]:)on the hill westerl}' of 
this Court House, then occupied as a farm, now mainly 
covered with buildings. 

Brother Everett and myself fitted for college together at 
Foxcroft Academy and boarded in the same family, the 
family of Mr. Richard D. Rice, and from that time to his 
death I have intimately known him. He had some pecu- 
liarities of character. His love of popularity was small. 
He was not made for a politician and I am not aware that he 
ever manifested any aspiration in that direction. He was 
at one time a member of the Governor's council, in the 
administration of Governor Crosby, but it was under peculiar 
circumstances. It was in the time when the old Whig party 
was undergoing the process of disintegration. I have 
always supposed the place to have come to him un.sought. 
In financial matters, though successful for a while, his career 
in that direction could not be called prosperous. 

After accumulating considerable property he went to Cali- 
fornia, and by reason of sickness during all the time he was 
unable to accomplish anything. Returning with fortune con- 
siderably impaired he was afterwards engaged in slate quarry 
business in Maryland, in which he was not successful. His 
manner was somewhat blunt and a stranger on first acquaint- 
ance might not receive a favorable impression. But this 
I will say of him : he was a man of the most scrupu- 
lous integrity. As has Ijeen well said l)y Brother 
Sprague, his word was as good as his bond. Get his 



32 PISCATAOUIvS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

verbal promise and you might rely upon it with the utmost 
confidence. Now this is saying nuicli of any man. In the 
great essential quality of manhood, integrity, he was a con- 
spicuous example. He hated cant and hypocrisy of every 
description and took no pains to conceal his aversion. No 
doubt this trait in liis character gave intensity to the blunt- 
ness of his manner, and yet he was an accommodating man. 
I ever found him kind in all business intercourse, and I think 
such is the unanimous experience of the Bar. 

His financial misfortune did not discourage him or unnerve 
him. He still persevered with laborious industry as long as 
strength lasted. He reared with success a large family to 
whom he was always kind and by whom he was much 
beloved. I never heard a word to their disparagement, and 
have heard much to their praise. Any man who brings up a 
large family and ]:)oints them in the right direction, has made 
a success in life. He has left to them something infinitely 
more valual)le than riches, the precious odor of a good name. 

I think that within the year preceding his death, he felt a 
keen premonition of his early departure, and was ready for 
the great change. I am told that on the death of Brother 
Lebroke, he said : "Well, it may l)e my turn to go next, and 
I am willing that it should be so. 

The death of Brother Ivverett cannot be otherwise than a 
solemn reminder to us all, and especially to the members of 
the Piscataquis Bar, of our frail hold on this earthly existence. 
A few years since we attended the funeral of Brother Hudson, 
and recently of Brothers L,ebroke and Kverett — all leading 
members of this Bar, men of mark, who filled a large .space 
in the profession. Whose turn may come next is known 
only to Omniscience, but of this we may be assured, that the 
relentless scythe of time will soon make harvest of us all." 

M. L. Durgin, Jr.: 

"May it Please Your Honor: — I am full>- aware that 
what I may say on this occasion will add but little to the 
very appropriate remarks which have already been made, but 



PISCATAQUIS BIOC.RAPHV AND FK ACilNIl^NTS. 'V^ 

I should ])e derelict in my duty did I not offer a word in testi- 
mony of the sincere regard I felt for our late brother. I had 
known Brother Everett from m\' early boyhood but more 
intimate!}^ since I became a member of this Bar, and since 
that time our relations have been of the pleasantest and most 
intimate. To me he was always kind, cordial and obliging 
and ever ready to render advice and assistance. 

Brother Kverett was a man who was positive in his con- 
victions, true and loyal to his friends and uncompromising to 
his enemies. Toward him I felt more than a common regard 
and when I learned that he was nearing his end I knew that 
I was about to lose a friend, and when at last his jcnirneN- of 
life had ended I felt that I had, indeed, lost one who had 
been to me a source of help and encouragement and there- 
fore, at this time I wish to offer this slight tribute of esteem 
toward one whose memory I shall ever cherish, for he was 
my friend." 

C. W. Brown said : 

"Your Honor: — xA.lthough one of the \oungest members 
of this Bar, I wish to speak a word in eulogy of our deceased 
brother. During a portion of the time when I was a student 
with Colonel Peaks and during all the time that I have been 
in practice with him, Brother Everett, down to the time of 
his la.st sickness, occupied an adjoining office, and as my 
Brother Peaks was much absent I hatl frequent occasion to 
.seek the advice of Brother Everett. I invariably found him 
willing to answer my many questions, no matter how bus\' he 
was at the time, and you all know his untiring industry ; he 
would lay aside his work and not only answer questions 
but go beyond them, and in that bluff way. so thoroughl\- his 
own, teach principles of law invaluable to a student and a 
young practitioner. And I think I am not alone his debtor 
in that regard. I know him to have been ever ready to give 
counsel and advice and words of encouragement to the young 
men of the Bar, in whom he alwavs manifested a sincere 



34 PISCATAOriR HIOC.KAPHV AXl) KR AC. :\t KXTS. 

interest, and \vliale\-ei" Brother I{\-erett manifested was sin- 
cere, for if he had one virtne high al)ove liis others, it was 
sincerit}'. There was nothing he so thoronghly disliked as 
hypocrisy in any form. Qnick to resent real or fancied 
injnry, he never stabbed a man in the dark. If lie was a 
man's enemy, that man knew it without a doubt. That he 
had his faults his best friends will not deny, and when one of 
our number comes down toward eternity with such puritv of 
life, that in it his associates can find no fault, the burial ser- 
vices of that one we shall hot attend for he will be translated 
bodily to Paradise. With faults we have nothing to do on 
such occasions as this. Those we leave to that other tribunal 
that knows their cause as well as existence. We have only 
to do with virtues and we find them in am])le measure in our 
brother, truthful, temperate, honest, ujnight, open, true and 
kind, almost worshipped by his own family circle. No man 
need fear to have his life stand before his fellows, when little 
children love him. Brother Kverett seemed never so happy 
as when, on riding, his carriage was .so filled with children 
that he could hardly be seen. I have often wondered which 
were happier at those times, he or thew 

We miss him from among us and we young men miss the 
counsels and advice he was so free to give. Many legal 
maxims of his teaching we shall never forget. It now hap- 
pens at this Bar that while we have so lately buried our 
brothers Lebroke and Kverett, at well advanced years, and 
there are others among us who are gra\- with age, a number 
of young men are just beginning their practice. Ma}- we 
find it a jileasure in the morning of our lives to make the 
evening of theirs pleasant and happ}'. We are at the bottom 
of the rugged hills of life, they have passed the summit of 
those hills and are nearing the quiet valleys, soon to be borne 
by the still waters to join our brother who.se absence from us 
we mourn to-day. We shall soon be called to occupy their 
places as we are being called to occupy the places of the as.so- 
ciates of their youth. May we fill those ]ilaces as well as 



PISCATAOUIvS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. dO 

they have filled them, and when we come down to life's 
setting sun, may we have as many virtues to connnemorate 
as we find in them, and as few vices." 

Judge Peters here feelingh' responded to the foregoing ; 
spoke in high terms of the character of the decea.sed and said 
he full\- and heartily concurred in what had been said. He 
thei] ordered the resolutions to be spread upon the recortls of 
the court and as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
the deceased, ordered the court adjourned. 



JAMES SULLIVAN WILEY. 



JAMES SULLIVAN WILEY. 



James Sullivax Wiley was born in the town of Mercer, 
Somerset County, January 22, 1808, and would have been 
eighty-four years of age, had he lived until his next birthday. 
When ten years old, he removed with liis father to F^rve- 
burg, Oxford County, where lie worked on a farm, helping 
his father clear land and make a home on what was known as 
Smart's Hill. 

In 1826 he went to Bethel to learn the blacksmith's trade, 
as an apprentice with John Hastings now of Fr\eburg. 
Here he worked three years and during the time attended 
Gould's Academy and also recited private lessons to William 
Frye, Esq., Bethel's first lawyer and father of Judge Richard 
A. Frye. With his brother, Enoch Wiley, in the .spring of 
1829 he walked from Fr3'eburg to Bangor, where his brother 
Samuel then resided. He afterwards attended school in the 
city, teaching in Brewer during the winter sea.sons. When 
fully prepared by study, in 1882, he entered Waterville Col- 
lege, now Colby Universit}^ graduating with honors in the 
class of 1836. General Benjamin F. Butler of Eowell, Mass., 
the divStinguished lawyer and .statesman, was a fellow student 
in college for two j-ears. 

After leaving college, the same yeav he became principal of 
Foxcroft Academ}-, a position he held for three 3ears, in the 
meantime reading law wnth James vS. Holmes, Esq., of Fox- 
croft, the senior lawyer and president of the PLscataquis 
County Bar. On his admission to the Bar, he formed a 
co-partnership with his legal tutor, which contituied until 
dissolution, a few years later. He then opened an office on 



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PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 



Union Scjuare, Dover, where he devoted himself with energy 
to the practice of his profession. In 184(i, after a sharp can'- 
va.ss, Mr. Wiley received the nomination of the Democratic 
party in convention as a candidate for the representative in 
Congress from the district composed of Penob.scot and 
Piscataquis counties. He was subsequently elected and took 
his seat in the Thirtieth Congress, on the first Monday in 
December, 1847. 

His colleagues from his own vState in the House were: 
E. K. vSmart of Camden, Franklin Clark of Wiscasset, 
A. W. H. Clapp of Portland, Hiram Belcher of Farmington! 
David Hammonsof I^ovell and Hezekiah Williams of Cas'tine! 
Mr. Wiley was the la.st survivor of this large delegation. 

At the clo.se of his congressional term in 1849, he returned 
to Dover and erected, for that day, a beautiful residence on 
Main street, which still remains a monument of his archi- 
tectural ta.ste, although it has passed to other hands. From 
that time he gave his undivided attention to business, devot- 
lug his attention principally to claims again.st the United 
States Government for land and military pensions. In these 
he was eminently successful, and for man}- years enjoyed the 
reputation at home and in Washington, of being one of 
the most efficient and reliable pen.sion attorneys in ''practice. 
• About the time he entered upon his professional career, he 
married with Miss Ruth Parker of Brewer, a most accom- 
pli.shed lady, who died about 1871. He never contracted a 
second marriage, but continued to occupy the hou.se built by 
himself, until 18S9, when he returned to Fryeburg, where 
.some of his relatives re.side, to .spend the evening of life' 
among the familiar scenes of his youth. 

Mr. Wiley during his residence of more than half a century 
in Piscataquis County, was always noted for his uprightness 
of character, the .strength of his convictions and the integrity 
of his purposes. He was always true to whatever com- 
mended itself to him as right. His life was exemplary in 
the highest degree. 



EPHRAIM FLINT. 



EPHRAIM FLINT. 



For man\- years Kphraiiii Flint of Dover, was a well known 
citizen of Piscataquis County and a public man of state repu- 
tation. The following in relation to his life history is sub- 
stantially an article that was published in the Piscataquis 
Observer subsequent to his demise : 

At quite an early hour vSunday morning, June 17th (1894), 
the people of this connnunity were suddenly startled by the 
announcement that their esteemed fellow citizen, Hon. 
I{phraim Flint, had passed away, dying a few minutes after 
five o'clock without a struggle. His death was evidently 
painless. He had been ill for some two weeks previous, but 
was supposed to be improving, so much so that he visited the 
Court House on Friday, and vSaturday his son, H. B. Flint, 
Esq., had taken him out in a carriage for a drive. 

The deceased was the son of Deacon Ephraim and Phebe 
Thompson Flint and born at Baldwin, Cumberland County, 
Maine, March 10, 1819, and consequenth' had passed the 
75th year of his age. He was a lineal descendant in the 
seventh generation of Thomas Flint, who came to Boston in 
1635 from Matlock, Derbyshire, England, and settled in 
Concord, Mass., two years later (1637). 

In his boyhood ^Ir. F'lint attended the common schools of 
his native town and later pursued his studies at Westbrook 
Seminary, Parsonsfield, Gorham, Bridgton and Fryeburg 
Academies and Norwich (Vt.) University, from which last 
named institution he graduated in 1841 with honors. While 
acquiring his education he had been for a portion of the time 
engaged in teaching. After graduating he became a law 



40 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

student in the office of Fessendeii & Willis in Portland, then 
regarded as the leading lawyers in Cunil)LM'land Count\', 
spending a part of the time at the Harvard Law vSchool in 
Cambridge, Mass. 

In 1843 he visited Piscataquis County and was admitted to 
the bar. The next year, 1844, in the month of May he 
opened a law office in the town of Monson in this county and 
in the following June married Miss I^aura Maria Riley, of 
Norwich, Vt., who survives him. 

Mr. Flint continued in the jiractice of his profession at 
Monson until January, 1851, when, having been elected Clerk 
of the Courts for the county at the state election in the Sep- 
tember previous, he removed with his family to Dover, to 
enter upon his official duties; this position, by virtue of sub- 
sequent elections he held to the close of 1S()2, a j)eriod of 
twelve years. 

In 1S()3, by appointment of the Governor of the state 
( Abner Coburn ) he served on the commission to locate the 
two normal schools, resulting in the choice of Castine and 
Farmington. He became a candidate for Secretary of vState 
in the winter of I8()4 and was elected by the legislature of 
that year. This high and responsible office he held with 
marked distinction by annual legislative election lor four 
consecutive years when he was transferred to the Pvxeculive 
Council for the year of 1868. The following year, 18(59, he 
served as chairman of the commission for the revision of the 
statutes of the state. 

The result of his labors is embodied in the Revised Statutes 
of 1871. At the close of this service he resumed his practice 
of law in Dover which he conducted with good degree of 
vigor and success nearly up to the time of his decease, inter- 
rupted only by an election to the state legislature in 1880 as 
a representative from the district, or class conq^osed of Dover, 
Sangerville and Parkman, where he served on the judiciary 
committee during the session of 1881. 

In ])()litics, iqKju the tlissolution of the Whig party, Mr. 
Flint became a Republican and the honoral)le i)Ositions held 



PIvSCATAOUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 41 

by him, covering so long a period, indicate his prominence 
in that party organization. 

Religiously, as in politics, his views were conservative and 
liberal, always conceding to others the freedom of opinion. 
Though affiliating with the Congregationalists, his convic- 
tions led him to adopt the broader opinions of the Unitarians 
and in that faith he lived and died. As a lawyer, he was not 
of the class called brilliant, but all his arguments before the 
law and other courts show soundness of position taken and 
were characterized by exhausted research and mental labor. 
Clients ever found in him a wise and safe counselor. 

His nature was congenial and gentle and he always had a 
pleasant greeting for every one, rich or poor, cultured and 
ignorant alike. His stately and erect figure so familiar for 
more than forty years upon the street will be seen no more, 
but his memory will long be kept green in the hearts of those 
who have shared his friendship in life. He never intention- 
ally inflicted an injur\- upon others. His life was gentle and 
gently he passed to his peaceful rest — 

'' So fades a .summer cloud away. 

So siid^s the ii'ale wiien storms are o"er, 
So yeutl}' shuts tlie eye of day. 

So dies tlie wave aloiii;- tlie sliore." 

Besides the widow, Mr. Flint leaves a son, H. B. Flint, 
Esq., our present Clerk of Courts, and a daughter, Mrs. 
Clara L,ouise Thomas, residing in Waltham, Mass., near 
Boston, and several grandchildren to whom he was much 
attached. A son, Edgar Thompson Flint, died in Savannah, 
Ga., in 187G. 

Funeral services were held at his late residence on Main 
street, under the auspices of Kineo Lodge, I. O. O. F., of 
which he was an honored member of many years standing. 
The religious exercises were conducted by Rev. A. L. Chase, 
pastor of the Congregational church, and Rev. J. H. 
Guerney, a former pastor. The floral tributes were elaborate 
and beautiful. 



42 PISCATAQUIS BIOGKAPHY AND FKAGMENTS. 

The remains were interred in the village cemetery witli the 
impressive rites of the fraternal order in charge. A large 
concourse of friends and citizens were in attendance to pay 
their last respects to their late associate, counselor and 
neighbor. 

At the Fel^ruary Term of the vSu])reme Judicial Court 
(1895) A. M. Robinson, President of the Piscataquis Bar 
Association, arose and briefl}' addressed the Court, Foster, 
Justice presiding, speaking of the decease of Ephraim P'lint, 
late a member of the Piscataquis Bar, and announcing that 
the customary resolutions of respect to the memory of the 
deceased lawyer had been prepared bj' a committee, and 
asked leave to present the same. He then requested Henr}' 
Hudson of Guilford to read the resolutions. After a few 
explanatory and eulogistic remarks upon the life, character 
and public services of his deceased professional brother, he 
submitted the following resolutions: 

Jlcniilcfd : That in tlie death of our late associate llu' JIou. Ephi-aiiii 
Flint, who died at his i-esidenee in this town on tlie seventeenth day of 
June, 1894, we are called to lanieut the loss of one who had oeeupied a 
prominent position at the bar of this court, in the lialls of lc«iis]ation, 
and in the state dei)artment as seeretai-y. and as a member of tlie execu- 
tive council; tliat in liim we recoo'nize the enulitc lawyer, wise and 
cautious counselor, judicious statesman, and i>,euial i-ompanion. 

Bt'soliy^il : That we will continue to cherish tlie memoi'y of our 
dei)arted brother. keepin<>- in lively remembi'ance his many social vir- 
tues, professional honor, his legal learnino' and ability. 

Ilcnolrcil : That His Honor, the Justice presidiiiii'. be ie(iuested to 
order that these resolutions be spread unon the records of this court, 
and that the secretary of the Bar Association present a co))y of tlie same 
to tlie family of the deceased, with the expression of our sympathy in 
tlieir deep alHiction and bereavement. 

A. M. IJoBINSON, 
M. L. UUKGIN, 

Henry Huut^oN. 

Brief addresses by M. L. Durgin, J. I). Ihown, C. \W 
Brown, C. W. Hayes, M. W. Mcintosh and J. B. Peaks, fol- 
lowed the reading, each bearing testimoii}- of the high esteem 



PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 43 

in which the deceased was held by his associates at the Bar, 
in the common walks of life, and in the numerous official 
positions he was called by his fellow citizens to fill. 

The response b}' Judge Foster was a very happ}- one, elo- 
quent and impressive. In his remarks the Judge related as 
an incident that the first commission he ever held, and that 
as an officer in the military service, bore the tests of Hphraim 
Flint, Jr., Secretary- of State, now thirty-one \'ears ago. He 
closed his address b\' ordering the clerk to spread the resolu- 
tions upon the records of the court, and that the court 
adjourn as a token of respect to the memory of the deceased. 



CYRUS A. PACKARD. 



CYRUS A. PACKARD. 



Friday, the closing day of the Supreme Judicial Court at 
Dover (1897), was partly occupied by memorial services upon 
the late Honorable Cyrus A. Packard of Blanchard. J. F. 
Sprague of Monson, presented the following resolutions: 

L'csdlri'fl : That by the death ot (nir lamented brother, Cynis A. 
Packard, this Bar loses a \n]ue(l Tiieinber and tlie eoininuiiitj' an exem- 
plary and useful citizen and that this liar will eherish in its ]-emem- 
brauce his many sterhng and nohle qualities of ebanicter. 

Iiesolre<l : That the secretary of this association transnnt a copy of 
these resolutions to the family of the deceased and that his Honor, the 
justice presiding', be requested to order them spread upon the records of 
this court. 

J. F. Sfkaguk, ] 

J. ii. Peaks, ^ (onuuittee. 

M. L. DURGIX, J 

Mr. Sprague said : 

"May it Please Your Honor: — The members of the 
Piscataquis Bar have requested me to inform this court of the 
death of one of our members, Cyrus A. Packard, at his 
home in Blanchard, December 7, 1896, at the age of seventy- 
four years. Brother Packard was bona in Hebron, in this 
vState, and went to Blanchard with his parents when only 
three years of age. Hence, he has lived in our county since 
childhood and has always been closel}' identified with its 
interests as a ptiblic man. He received a common school 
and academical edtication. His famih' with the Blanchards, 
Davees and others, were among the first settlers of the town 
of Blanchard and were among the founders of Piscataquis 
County. 



46 PISCATAOUI.S BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

His ancestr}' was sturdy Pilgrim stock of Massachusetts. 
In October, 1864, he enlisted as a private in Company G, 
vSeventeeTith Maine Infantry, and was detailed for service in 
the provost marshal's office in Bangor, and also in the mili- 
tary dei)artment in Washington, D. C. He was admitted to 
the Bar about 1872 and practiced law in Monson for several 
years. He was appointed land agent by Governor Davis in 
1880, which office he filled in a ver}' able manner for twelve 
years. He was elected count}' commissioner for three con- 
secutive terms, and since he was land agent served as a 
member of the Maine Legislature. He had served on the 
State committee of his political party and was a recognized 
leader in political affairs in this section. He also filled many 
town offices, having been chairman of the l)oard of selectmen 
of his town for twenty-two years. He was in ever\- respect a 
reliable and true man. Having strong likes and dislikes, he 
was a warm friend and could be a strong foe if the occasion 
demanded it. Yet he was invariably of a cheerful aifd 
pleasant nature and he took a philosophical view of men and 
matters as a general rule. 

He had the courage of his convictions at all times. He 
was well versed and remarkably well informed in historical 
and political matters, especially those relating to his own state. 
He was always a student and to whatever subject he gave 
attention he was thorough and profound. M\' intercourse 
with him has been pleasant and valuable to me. 

In brief, your Honor, our late brother was, as a lawyer, a 
wise and safe counselor; as a citizen, honorable, reliable and 
upright in his daily life and true to every trust imposed 
upon him of a public nature. He possessed many noble traits 
of character which we may all do well to remember and 
emulate. I move that the resolutions which I have offered be 
spread upon the records of this court." 

Colonel J. B. Peaks of Dover followed Mr. Sprague. He said: 

"May it Plkase the Court: — My acquaintance with 
Brother Cyrus Packard commenced more than twenty-five 



PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FKAGINIENTS. 4:7 

years ago, when I first settled in the town of Dover, and I 
have been more or less intimate with him in matters of busi- 
ness and politics since that time. I remember him particu- 
larly on account of my relations with him in political matters. 
He has held a great many offices of trust and has always 
filled the positions well. He had one peculiar characteristic. 
I think he knew more of the political history of this state or 
at least could state more without reference to books, than 
any man I ever knew. Whenever any question arose in rela- 
tion to the history of the state government, Mr. Packard 
could always decide it without reference to books, and would 
alwaj'S decide it right. As has been well said, he was an 
encj'clopedia of the political history of the state. My rela- 
tions with him have almost always been cordial. At one 
time, however, as is often the case, he and I had some 
difference in the politics of the county, but I was never con- 
scious of an}^ hard feeling toward me, because within a week 
of his death he said to me that if he had ever done aught to 
me which I felt was in any way wrong or unkind, he desired 
me to forgive him, ami I was glad to assure him that he had 
never done anything which I thought required any forgive- 
ness on my part. 

About a week before his death he sent for me to go to his 
home in Blanchard to make arrangements for his last will and 
te-stament. I found him conscious that he was approaching 
the end, and he said to me that it was a great comfort to him 
to feel that he should die respected by his townsmen and by 
the citizens of Piscataquis county, and he hoped by the citi- 
zens of the whole state, and he seemed to be especially pleased 
that he was to die in his own home, surrounded by his friends 
and all the associations of a lifetime. He felt, I think, as the 
poet did when he said : 

"■ 111 Jill my wiinderinos round this world of care, 
In all my griefs— and God has given my share, — 
I still had hopes, my latest hours to erowu. 
Amid these hunil)le bowers to lay me down, 
To husliand out life's tajier to its close, 
And keej) the flame from wasting by repose." 



48 PIvSCATAOUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

When I left him I think he fek that he should never see 
me again, for he said to me : ' I ma\' be here in a week from 
now, I ma}- be here three months from now, I do not know 
when I shall go, but I am ready to go whenever I am called.' 

The members of the Piscataquis Bar have parted with 
Brother Packard with regret, and I cordially second the 
motion of Brother Sprague that these resolutions be spread 
upon the records of the court." 



JOSEPH DARLING BROWN. 



JOSEPH DARLING BROWN. 



At the Febnian- term of the Supreme Judicial Court at 
Dover (1898) services in memory of ]\Ir. Brown were held. 

At a meeting of the members of Piscataquis Bar Associa- 
tion previously held, A. M. Robinson, J. F. Sprague and 
M. L. Durgin were designated a committee to prepare and 
present to the court resoUitions regarding the deceased. 

]\Ir. Robinson being unable to attend the services on 
account of illness, W. E. Parsons was appointed to take his 
place on the committee. Saturday forenoon, February 28th, 
after the disposal of some routine business, Mr. Parsons 
addressing the Court spoke substantially as follows: 

"May it Please the Court: — In the absence of Brother 
Robinson, who is unfortunate!}' confined to the house b}- ill- 
ness, I have been designated by my l^rothers at the Bar to 
announce to the court the death of one of our members. 
Honorable Joseph D. Brown of Foxcroft, which occurred in 
the last vacation. And in. performing this sad duty I am 
well aware that I cannot speak of the deceased and his hfe- 
work as could Brother Robinson were he present, or as can 
the older mem])ers of the Bar who have known him much 
longer than I. Speaking wholly without preparation, I must 
refer to the deceased as I knew him, as he appeared to me, 
without going into the details of his life history as will mv 
Brother Sprague and other attorneys. 

My acquaintance with the deceased began some eighteen 
years ago when he returned from the West where he had 
been sojourning for quite a period of time. I was then in 



50 PISCATAQUIS BIOGKAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

co-partnership with our late Brother lyebroke. Shortly after 
his return from the West he received the appointment of trial 
justice. I soon found that Mr. Brown was a man of firnniess 
aud an able law3'er. I think nearly all the minor cases of 
Lebroke & Parsons were tried before him and later when 
that firm was dissolved and it l^ecame my duty to prosecute 
offenders of the law as county attorney, I did not hesitate to 
bring my criminal matters before him even when I knew that 
Brother Lebroke was to defend. M3' confidence was not 
misplaced. For I think that never did the close and intimate 
relations between himself and Mr. L,ebroke or the latter's 
persuasive power of eloquence swerve him from the path of 
dut}'. As the first judge of Dover Municipal Court, his 
duties were somewhat enlarged, but here, as elsewhere, he 
was firm, but kind and courteous to all and never favored that 
style of practice now so rapidly disappearing, rarel}' indulged 
in by attorne3'S, of brow-beating witnesses or trying to over- 
ride in a discourteous manner opposing counsel. 

He had earlier in life served the citizens of Foxcroft as 
their postmaster and of Piscataquis as one of their county 
commissioners, always discharging his official duties with 
ability and fidelity. Perhaps that part of his life-work 
which in later years he enjoyed most was literary pursuits 
and newspaper work. He was for several 3-ears connected 
with the Piscataquis Observer^ as associate editor and in 
addition to that work was for some time the regular cor- 
respondent of several of our leading Maine papers and one 
or more of the metropolitan papers of Boston. He was an 
able editor and an interesting correspondent. As an obituary 
writer he was unexcelled and seemed to take pleasure in his 
efforts along those lines. Upon any subject which he 
touched he wielded an able, vigorous, yet graceful ])en. 

He was a man of broad views, of versatile mind and 
remarkably well informed, not only upon past events i)ut the 
various topics of the day. For one of his years, being 
nearly eight}' when he died, he was a remarkable worker. 



PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 51 

M}- relations with him for maii}^ years have been friendly and 
intimate, and rarely, if ever, have I stepped into his office 
without finding him with pen or book in hand, improving his 
time l\v imparting his information to others through the press 
or seeking for further wisdom like a fresh student with the 
race of life still before him. 

He was of a genial, social disposition and kind hearted to 
all. Frequently have I found school children in his office 
engaged in pleasant conversation and his life, I have no 
doubt, was made brighter and wiser b}^ the as.sociation. He 
was obliging in all things, read}' to assist others and in its 
best sense a good neighbor and true to his friends. All in 
all, he is a man who will be missed; missed not only by the 
members of this Bar but by his former townsmen and friends 
everywhere whose confidence he enjo3'ed." 

At the close of his remarks, Mr. Parsons read the resolu- 
tions, moving their adoption and that the same be ordered 
spread upon the records of the court as follows: 

Iicsdlrcil : That hi the death of our lamented bi'other, Joseph D. 
Krovvii, the Piscataquis IJar Association lias lost a valued, highly 
esteemed member and the community a true, woithy and public spirited 
citizen, wliich loss we all deeply deplore; that we shall ever cherish iu 
our memories his estimable traits of character, his genial and pleasant 
nature and his kindly acts toward all. 

licsojrcil : That the secretary of this association transmit a copy of 
these resokitions to tlie friends of the deceased, and his Honor, the 
justice presiding, be requested to order the same spread upon the 
I'ci'ords of this couit. 

A. M. liOBIXSON, ] 

M. L. DURGIN, V ( 'ommittee. 
J. F. Sprague, j 

J. F. vSprague of Monson, said: 

" MxVY IT Pi^EASE THE CouRT : — vSince the last nisi prius 
term of the Supreme Judicial Court in this county the inex- 
orable hand of death has again not only broken the ranks of 
ni}- personal friends, liiit has taken from our fraternit)- one 
of our oldest and most respected members, Joseph Darling 
Brown. 



52 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMRNTS. 

Brother Brown was born in the town of Buxton in the 
State of Maine, Januar}- 12, 1823, (his father, vSaniuel Brown, 
having emigrated there from Hoj)kinton, N. H., in the year 
1804) and died in Dover, January 31, 1898. His mother's 
maiden name was Darling and she was a relative of the 
Cilley family of Rockland, Maine, and also a connection of 
the late General Benjamin F. Butler of Lowell, Mass. His 
parents moved from Buxton to Guilford in this county and 
were among the early settlers of that town. 

Joseph and his brother, Wm. M. K. Brown, were educated 
at the Foxcroft Acadeni}-, generally walking in their attend- 
ance to this school, a distance of four miles from their home. 
After graduating at this school and while himself a school 
teacher, he pursued the study of languages under a private 
tutor and became a proficient French and Ivatin scholar, 
reading Victor Hugo and other favorite authors in the 
original as easily as in the English. 

He was admitted to the Bar in Piscataquis County, June 
25, 1846, and immediateh- entered upon the practice of his 
profession in Foxcroft. In 1851-2-3 he was a member of the 
board of count}' commi.ssioners, was for a time postmaster of 
Foxcroft and also held other positions of trust in that town. 
In 1858 he formed a law partnership with his brother, 
Wm. M. K., in Skowhegan, Me., where the\- continued 
in the practice of law until the year 1868. About this 
time he went to the vState of Illinois where he was also 
engaged in the law practice until his return to Maine about 
the year 1878. It is said that when he was in practice in 
Skowhegan he was a successful jury lawyer and an interest- 
ing speaker. He was in this communit\- in the earliest da3'S 
of our county, was then an active ])artici]xint in its affairs, 
has witnessed its growth and development since and has been 
more or less identified with its history. 

I did not Ijecome acquainted with Brother Brown until 
sul)sequent to his return from the West, some two or three 
years after I was admitted to the Bar and while m\- home was 



PISCATAOUIvS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 53 

in Abbot in this county. Since that time I was well and 
intimately acquainted with him until his demise. 

During this latter period of his life he was not in active 
practice, although he preserved his connection with our Bar, 
always attended its meetings, and was ever deeply interested 
in all matters pertaining to our association and in everything 
tliat concerned its welfare. So he seemed to me as much an 
active member of the Bar as though he had at our terms of 
court attended regularly to the business of the courts. 

His filling the position of Judge of the Dover Municipal 
Court for four years brought him in close contact with all of 
the members of the Bar in this county and in towns adjoining 
this count)-. In this way he also kept in touch with the Bar 
and I think his relations with the attorneys were generall}' 
pleasant and fraternal. 

I knew Joseph D. Brown as a man of scholarl}' attainments, 
well versed in the principles of the law and possessing a pro- 
found love for books and a literary taste of a high order. 
His connection with the press at various times demonstrated 
that he was a writer of much more than ortlinary al)ility. In 
fact, but few in these parts were his equal in this respect. 
He was a thoughtful and sincere writer, viewing life 
seriously, who sought for the truth, and had the courage to 
express his convictions, believing with David Barker: 

• Ye onijiiot send the simplest line 
Abroad fiom otf your pen, 
But ye must meet in future hour. 
That very line aiiain." 

His accomplishments in this direction, while they were 
perhaps never properh- rewarded, were well recognized and 
appreciated ])y a very large constituency of readers in this 
vicinit}'. 

It was my fortune at one time to edit a newspaper in this 
county for several years, during which time he was a leading- 
correspondent. I often refer to those files for information of 
a local nature. They would, if published in book form, make 



54 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

a valuable chapter in the history of Piscataquis Count}', not 
only for that period but for previous years, for they are 
replete with valuable historical facts pertaining to our count}'. 
For five years he was one of the editors of the Piscataquis 
Observer and was also a writer for other Maine newspapers 
and public journals. He was one of the most authentic local 
historians that we have ever had, and he took great interest 
in such subjects. 

Politically, his convictions were such that he was usually 
identified with minority organizations and was for many 
years prominent in the Democratic party. Yet at different 
times in his life his abilities have been recognized and he has 
received honors at the hands of his fellowmen, besides receiv- 
ing many nominations for office by the minority. He was 
broad-minded, catholic and independent in his views, and in 
his later years was not much of a partisan, realh' belonging 
to no political part}'. Naturally a reformer, he was perhaps 
too often allured by new faiths pretending to reform. 

His nature was such that he viewed all political questions 
from the standpoint of the common people. He svmpathized 
with them in their wrongs and was impatient at delays in 
redressing them. Yet he was a philosopher and viewed the 
problems of life complacently, although always keenly appre- 
ciating their gravity and importance. If he felt disappoint- 
ments and adversity with bitterness, he had a most excellent 
faculty of concealing his feelings, for he was invariably 
cheerful and seemed to be more of an optimLst than a pessi- 
mist. In his religious views he was always of the liberal 
faith, was one of the founders of the present Universalist 
Church of Dover and Foxcroft, and a deacon of the church 
at the time of his decease. He was highly esteemed by all 
of his church associates for his sincerity and exemplary life. 
I knew him as a pleasant, genial, kindly gentleman, under all 
circumstances. I knew him as a friend true and steadfast. 
I believe he was a true man at heart with the best of inten- 
tions, but he was not a perfect man, for he belonged to the 



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liunian family and like all of his kind, he had weaknesses 
and failings common to all. The poet has well said : 

' lu men wlioni men coiKleniu as ill, 
I liud so inucli of g'oodness still; 

In iiieu wliom men pronounce divine. 
I find so niueh of sin and blot, 

T hesitate to draw the line 
Between the two. when God has not." 

His life's horizon was not alwaN'S clear and bright, .some- 
times it was cloudy and stormy. The rich and influential 
never fawned upon him or lent him any ver}- essential aid in 
fighting life's furious battle. He was not as fortunate as some 
in acquiring worldly pelf. 

An American statesman, your Honor, in a memorial 
address upon the life of a deceased member of congress a few 
years ago, used this language: 'In the democracy of the 
dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor 
station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. At this 
fatal threshold the philosopher ceases to be wise, and the 
song of the poet is silent. Dives relinquishes his millions 
and I^azarus his rags. The poor man is as rich as the richest 
and the rich man is as poor as the pauper. The creditor 
loses his usury and the debtor is acquitted of his obligation. 
There the proud man surrenders his dignities, the politician 
his honors, the worldling his pleasitres ; the invalid needs no 
physician, and the laborer rests from his unrequiting toil. 
Here at la.st is nature's final decree in equity. The wrongs 
of time are redressed. Injustice is expiated, the irony of fate 
is refuted, the vmequal distrilnttion of wealth, honor, capacity, 
pleasure and opportunity, which make life such a cruel and 
inexplicable traged}', ceases in the realm of death. The 
strongest there has no supremacy and the weakest needs no 
defense. The mightiest captain succumbs to that invincible 
adversary who disarms alike the victor and the vanquished.' 

I believe our late brother performed the cUities of life con- 
scientiously and as he believed to be right. He was positive 
in his likes and dislikes of men. As a friend he was devoted 



56 PISCATAQUIS inOGRAPHY AND FRAGMKNTS. 

and unwavering-; yet he could, if he believed his rights were 
infringed upon, be a foe of strength and endurance. 

He has vanished from life and gone out from our circle 
never more to return. He has joined that solenni and invisi- 
ble procession whose journey is hidden from our vision by the 
shroud and the grave. He has left .some footprints upon the 
sands of our time. May we all, when our turn shall come, be 
able to leave l)ehind us as untarnished a name as has our late 
friend and brother. But death is the lot of all that is mortal. 

'First oui- pleasures die — and then 
Oui- hopes, and then our fears — and when 
1'hese are dead, the debt is (hie. 
Dust claims dust, and we die, too.' '" 

M. Iv. Durgin of Milo, said: 

"May it Please Your Honor: — I do not rise for the 
purpose of indulging in a vain repetition of words, but rather 
to add ni}' Ijrief but sincere tribute of respect to our deceased 
brother. Although my acquaintance with our late brother 
had been of nearly twelve years standing, yet it was not so 
intimate in its character, b}' reason of the fact that in the 
larger sense he was not a practitioner after his return to this 
county the la.st time, as with those attorneys with whom I 
meet in this court .so frequently. 

vSo far as my personal knowledge goes, and judging from 
what I learn from those who knew him best, he was a man of 
good legal attainments, a great reader, an excellent scholar 
and a graceful and forceful writer. In all the 3-ears I knew 
him, our relations were of a friendly character. In our 
relation.ship as attorneys of this court, we find ourselves oft- 
times in the position of advocates who are obliged to give 
and take, but there comes a time when the Great I^eveler 
stills our contentions and in that hour we forget our differ- 
ences and think onl}- of the virtues of those who have 
passed ' that bourne from whence no traveler returns.' 

Brother Brown was nearly the last of the older attorneys 
whom I knew when I was first admitted to the Bar. His 



PISCATAQUIS 15IOGKAPHY AND FKAG.MENTS. 57 

manner toward nie was always kindly and cordial, and I 
desire at this time to add these few words to those which 
have already been so eloquently spoken on this occasion b}' 
the gentlemen who have preceded me." 

His Honor, Jndge vSavage, the justice presiding, then said : 

"I did not have the pleasure of the acquaintance with our 
late Brother Brown in his lifetime, and therefore I cannot 
add from my knowledge or personal observation to the words 
in commendation of his virtues by which the members of this 
Bar have so admirably expressed their kindly and tender 
memories of him. I think it must be ver}- agreeable to the 
spirit of our departed brother — if it be so that they who have 
gone l)efore are permitted still to know what transpires 
among those who still remain — to know and appreciate the 
sentiment of friends as uttered upon an occasion like this; it 
must be very gratif}'ing to him to know how he was regarded 
by those with whom he came in contact in all the varied 
affairs of life, I)}- his friends and neighbors and especially bv 
the brethren of his chosen profession. 

It is, I think, especially suitable for lawyers and the court 
to arrest for a time the business which calls them together, 
and laying aside the cares, the responsibilities, the contests 
of professional life, to place in permanent form their tribute 
to the memory of one who has shared these cares and respon- 
sibilities and has participated in the.se contests. The hush of 
the open grave, the silence of the lips that have spoken and 
the thoughtful eulogy, all knit into better brotherhood the 
hearts of those who survive. 

The life of the lawyer is one of toil and drudgery and his 
fame is evanescent. Occupying a place in business and 
social affairs which is both prominent and striking while he 
lives, the work of the lawyer is of such a nature, in the office 
and at the forum, as to leave but little on permanent record. 
And though they are and nuist be the great conservative 
force which moulds .society- and makes for better living, the 
legal attainments, the exhibitions of skill, the bursts of elo- 



58 PISCATAQl'IS BIOORAPIIY AXD FRAGIMKNTS. 

quence, the triumphs of conflict of iiidixidual lawj'ers^soon 
fade from the memory, and to the next generation become 
largely traditional. Hence, it is peculiarly appropriate^^that 
mendjers of the profession should engage in mournful services 
such as these, in memory of those who have laid down the 
work of life, and should place on ])erpetual record their esti- 
mate of the character and virtues of a deceased l)rotlier. 

The Court deeply sympathizes with this Bar in the loss 
the\' have sustained. 

It is ordered that the resolutions of the Bar, which so 
fatting!}- and eloquently pay tribute to the memory of our late 
Brother Brown, be spread at length upon the records of the 
court. It is also ordered, as a further mark of respect, that 
the proceedings of this court l)e suspentled until Monday 
morninu' next. 



ALEXANDER M. ROBINSON. 



ALEXANDER MARTIN ROBINSON. 



Alexander Martin Robinson was born in Bangor, 
Maine, April 25, 1814, and died in Dover, Maine, October 
14, 1898. 

Attendance as a boy upon the schools of his native town, 
now a thriving- city, private study b}' firelight, and one term 
at Foxcroft Academy, made the sum of his advantages for an 
academic education. 

So faithful and quick was young Robinson at his studies 
that at the age of sixteen years he was regarded qualified to 
teach, and at that earl}- age did teach his first school in the 
town of Glenljurn. His quality as an instructor and disci- 
plinarian is attested by the fact that he was retained as 
teacher in the same district for several consecutive terms. 

In 1834, when he was twenty ^-ears of age, he entered the 
law office of Abram Sanborn, in Levant (now Kenduskeag) 
village; and, while preparing for his professional career, 
maintained his reputation as a teacher in the schools of that 
village. He was admitted to the Bar in 18-37, and com- 
menced practice in Sebec village, taking the olSce formerly 
occupied by John Appleton, subsequenth' Chief Justice of 
Maine. 

After a law practice in vSebec for seventeen }^ears, he 
removed in 1854 to Dover, where he maintained a large 
and lucrative practice for more than fort3'-three \'ears. At 
the time of his death he was the senior member of the law 
firm of Robinson & Cross, his partner l^eing Harvev J. 
Cross of Dover. 



60 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

At the time of his death a writer in tlie Piscataquis Observer 
said : 

"Mr. Robinson was married fift^'-five years ago to Miss 
Mar}- A. Chase, danghter of the late Joseph Chase of Sebec, 
who now survives him. Of their nine children, two died in 
infanc}' and two, a son and a daughter, after arriving at 
maturity. Their five sons now remaining have gone forth 
from the parental roof and established homes of their own, 
one in Foxcroft, three in Bangor and one in the vState of 
California.- The patriotism of the family is shown by the 
fact that two of the sons performed true and valued service 
for their country in the Union army at the time of the 
Civil War." 

The funeral services of Mr. Robinson were held at his late 
residence in Dover, October 17, 189S, and were conducted by 
Rev. E. F. Pember, the eloquent Universalist divine of 
Bangor, who was assisted by the Rev. Norman McKinnon, 
the able pastor of the Congregational church of Foxcroft. 
A large numl)er of prominent citizens of Eastern Maine 
attended, among whom were Josiah Crosl:)y of Dexter, J. F. 
Snow, Arthur Brown, E. B. Nealley, F. A. Cummings, 
Elewellyn Morse, H. W. Blood, Thomas White, A. E- 
Simpson, John Cassidy, General Charles Hamlin and vS. F. 
Humphrey of Bangor. The members of the Piscataquis Bar 
A.ssociation, of which Mr. Robinson was its president, were 
also present. 

At the following February term of the vSupreme Judicial 
Court at Dover, Ju.stice Strout presiding. Colonel J. B. Peaks 
of Dover, Henr\- Hudson of Guilford, and Martin E. Durgin 
of Milo, having been selected as a conunittee for the purpose, 
presented to the court appropriate resolutions in memory' of 
the deceased. P^loquent remarks were made b}- each member 
of the committee and also b}- C. \< . Brown, W. E. Parsons, 
Josiah Crosby, C. W. Haj^es and others, who very feelingl}^ 
referred to the life work of Mr. Robinson. 



PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. Gl 

At this time J. F. Sprague made the following remarks: 

"May it Please the Court : — Upon such an occasion 
as this the voice of the poet is remembered : 

'There are no dead, we fall asleep 
To walscu wliere they never weep. 
We eloi^e our eyes ou pain and sin. 
Our breath elihs out, but life flows in." 

My relations with our late Brother Robinson for nearly 
a quarter of a century were such that I should feel that I was 
derelict in my dut}- if I allowed this occasion to pass without 
adding my own lowly tribute to his memory. 

A Presidential candidate of one of the great political 
parties of our country, when himself a member of Congress, 
delivered a eulogy upon a deceased fellow-member wherein 
he t;sed these words: 'He was a well-rounded man, one of 
the most complete men I ever knew. Some are specialists 
and excel in a particular line of work, or become famous 
becaii.se of some facult}- abnormally developed. Not so with 

Mr. . He was not a one-sided man, not a man with 

one idea or one virtue. He so blended graces and good 
qualities, so combined the traits and characteristics which 
distinguish men, as to be worthy of Antony's compliment of 
Brutus : 

'• His lite was gentle and the elements 
80 mixed in him, that Nature miglit stand up 
And say to all the world. This was a man." 

He found his inspiration at his fireside and approached the 
ideal in his domestic life. He and his faithful wife, who 
was both his helpmeet and companion, inherited as tenants 
in common that sacred place called home, and needed no 
court to define their relative rights and duties. The invisi- 
ble walls which shut in that home and shut out all else, had 
their foundations upon the earth and their battlements in the 
skies; no force could break them down, no poisoned arrows 
could cross their top, and at the gates thereof, love and confi- 
dence stood ever upon guard.' In my opinion, Your Honor, 



62 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FKAG:MENTS. 

this sentiment from the pohtical leader and vivid word 
painter, INIr. Bryan, describes correctly and beautifully the 
domestic life of our late brother and friend. 

Some years before I was admitted to this Bar and when 
reall}- only a boy, I had some business relations with Brother 
Robinson and then as a Ia3'man and as a client I learned to 
respect him for his unwavering integrit}^ and high sense of 
honor. At that time there was quite a remarkable group of 
lawyers in active practice in Piscataquis County : The senior 
Henry Hudson, Charles A. Everett, A. G. Lebroke and 
Alexander M. Robinson, and while the}' differed wideh' in 
all of their characteristics and personalities, each was an al)le 
and well equipped law3'er. The}- were all active in public 
affairs and made an indelible impress upon the communit}-. 
The history of Piscataquis County, of its material interests, 
its progress in education and its advancement in any direc- 
tion during the past forty years could not be accurately 
written if the names and work of these men were omitted. 
They helped to make its history. But the last one has gone 
and we pause in our labors to mourn his departure from 
among us and to make up a brief record of some of his most 
noble qualities. 

The years while he was gliding down the westen slope of 
life and while he yet lingered in its mellow twilight, rested 
lightly upon him, and he maintained wonderful mental vigor 
to the last moment. Peacefully he vanished into life's mys- 
terious sunset. And on that bright and beautiful October 
day, typical of a fading life, friends from various parts of the 
State assembled together to pay him their last respects and to 
honor his memory. 

I knew Brother Robinson not only as an able and success- 
ful lawyer, eloquent advocate and safe and wise counselor 
who invariably advised and urged fair adjustments of litiga- 
tion rather than the trial of causes, but also as a profound 
student of literature. To read and keep in close touch with 
all of the greatest authors and most advanced thinkers, was a 
pastime with him. He delved in the lore of the past ages 



PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 63 

and eiijoN'ed the companionship of Plato and Homer, Shakes- 
peare, Sheridan and Bacon, as well as of Howells, Hawthorne 
and lyongfellow. He was a logical, concise and polished 
writer, and would undoubtedh' have been eminent in litera- 
ture had he chosen that as a life profession. 

While he was conservative in his tendencies and exercised 
caution and discretion in forming an opinion regarding 
questions of a public nature, he was firm in his convictions, 
when after mature deliberation he decided which was the 
wisest and the best. He was liberal and broad minded and 
progressive, always favoring education, and all meritorious 
public enterprises found in him a firm friend and all}'. This 
fact is forcibl}' illustrated in the history of the Bangor & 
Piscataquis railroad, the first railway system to connect the 
people and the industries of the Piscataquis valle}' with the 
commerce and activities of the outside world. For many 
3'ears prior to its establishment. Brother Robinson was a per- 
sistent advocate of this enterprise through the public journals, 
at citizens' meetings and by private intercourse. His efforts 
were untiring and I doubt if an}- one man in Eastern Maine 
is entitled to any more if as much credit for its successful 
termination as he. He had able associates and co-laborers 
in this agitation, such as the late Adams H. Merrill of Brown- 
ville and many in Bangor, among whom was Hannibal Ham- 
lin. Yet his residence and interests being here in this 
county, he was, with his abilities and his sincerity, the real 
leader in the movement. His association with Senator Ham- 
lin in this matter made their relations closer than ever before 
and until the close of Mr. Hamlin's memorable life, these 
men were warm and intimate friends. From the time of its 
organization until its absorption by the B. & A. system, he 
was one one of its directors and attorne3S. 

He loved the life of the agriculturist, and while the law 
was his vocation, farming was always an avocation with him. 
He devoted much of his time to this and had a thorough 
knowledge of the subject not only from a scientific and theo- 
retical point of view but from a practical one as well. His 



G4 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

services for twenty years as president of the Piscataquis 
Central Agricultural Society and seven years as a member of 
the Trustees of the Agricultural College and three years a 
member of the Maine Board of i\griculture, attest what a deep 
interest he took in this grand occupation which is the real 
foundation of our entire structure of industry and prosperity. 

As a citizen and as a student of political and economic 
questions he sympathized deeply with the farming classes in 
whatever seemed to be oppressive or burdensome to them 
and in his later 3ears he often expressed himself as feeling 
sad that evidence existed of the decline of this industry in 
this State. 

His long connection with a minority political party when 
his talents would have necessarily and as a matter of course, 
received recognition by the majority, was evidence that he 
w^as conscientious and true to his convictions whether we 
may agree or disagree with the political creed to which he 
was for a lifetime devoted and which he served with honor 
and fidelity. His own party, when in the ascendancy, 
bestowed upon him legislative honors when Maine was a 
storm center in National politics and he was an active parti- 
cipant in some of the most stirring scenes ever enactetl in a 
Maine legislature. The fortunes of political warfare kept 
him in an organization in his own county that was opposed to 
man}' of us who were his personal friends and who to-da}^ 
delight in doing honor to his memory, yet it never inter- 
rupted his friendly or personal relations, no matter how sharp 
or bitter the contest might be. 

Brother Robinson was a philosopher in his theories of life 
here and hereafter. Absolutely indifferent to everything 
in religion of a dogmatic nature, sceptical about anything 
that partook in the remotest degree of superstition, hating 
hypocrisy, despising cant, an adversai'}' and censurer of 
pharisees and phariseeism, loving tolerance and the broadest 
liberty of conscience and of thought, he may well be termed 
a free-thinker in the Ijest and highe.st acceptance of that 
term. An agnostic as to mi:ch, he was vet a 1)eliever. His 



PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAG^IENTS. 65 

faith was the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of all 
mankind. Recognizing the value of church organization he 
alhliated with the Universalists. 

Although never what is known as a speculator and never 
personalh- engaged in great business enterprises, he was a 
shrewd and careful financier, possessing most excellent and 
sound judgment regarding investments and finance. The 
banks of this count}- sought his aid and services, and as an 
officer and adviser he was for many years connected with and 
of much benefit to these institutions. 

But it is of Brother Robinson as a friend, always true 
though never effusive and fawning, always sympathetic and 
appreciative of the efforts of others without ain* odor of 
hollow flatter}' in his praise, that fills the largest place in nn- 
memory of him and his strong personality. His kindness to 
young attorncN-s and his desire to lend them aid and 
encouragement was proverbial at this Bar, and he was 
equally as kind to and thoughtful of any of the poor and 
unfortunate ones in an)- walk of life. 

P"or honesty of purpose, devotion to principle and nobility 
of character, the life of Alexander M. Robinson affords an 
illustrious example to the members of this Bar and to the 
people of this count}-. Peace to his ashes! Honor to his 
memory ! 

' Our lives are albums, written throu^'h 
Witli ijood or ill, with false or tnie ; 
Aud as the blessed augels tiini 

The pages of our years, 
God grant they read tlie good witii smiles, 
And 1)less the ill with teai-s." " 

The presiding justice responded in kind and appreciative 
words to the sentiments expressed by the speakers. The 
resolutions as presented were ordered spread upon the records 
of the court and as a further token of respect to the memory 
of the departed, the court was adjourned. 



THOMAS DAVEE. 



THOMAS DAVEE. 



If the reader sliould indulge in the pleasure of a carriage 
drive through the pleasant and picturesque region of the 
upper Piscataquis valley, he would find no portion that would 
more forcibly remind him of Longfellow's immortal " vSud- 
bur}' Town," than the charming little town of Blanchard; for 
most certainly 

•• A re*j,i()ii of repose it seeius, 
A place of sluinl)er and of dieains, 
Remote ainouii- the wooded hills." 

Its fertile meadow farms through which the Piscataquis 
gently winds its course in its journey oceanward, its prett}* 
farm cottages with their modest surroundings, its white 
church on the sloping hillside, its schoolhouse. its country 
mills, its blacksmith shop, store and post office, do not sug- 
gest to the traveler a place of magnitude in the commercial 
world of to-da}-. x\nd yet, when hardy pioneers and sturd}' 
sons of New England came hither to build a new county in 
the forests of eastern Maine, it was for a time an important 
center for the lumberman, the "tote" teams, and the stages 
of those primitive days. 

vStnne of its citizens were prominent and active men of 
affairs in this .section, in the beginning of Piscataquis Count}-, 
and were of its founders and holders of office. Notably 
among these men of prominence were the Packards, the 
Blanchards and the Davees. 

Thomas Davee. the subject of this sketch, was a resident 
of Blanchard while he was a member of the National Con- 
gress, and when that town was a part of Somerset County. 
Hon. J. \V. Porter, editor of the Maine Historical Magazine, 



68 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

in a recent article regarding Mr. Davee, (vol. 9, page 90, 
Maine Historical Magazine), sa3's "that he was the founder 
of the town of Dover. He came from sturdy Pilgrim stock, 
being the .son of Solomon and Jedidah (Sylvester) Davie of 
Plymouth, Massachusetts, born there December 8, 1797. 
After arriving at the age of twenty-one years he went to 
Hebron, Maine, and remained there until 1821, when he 
removed to what is now Dover. While in Hebron, he 
married Ruth Barrows." 

Doring's History of Piscataquis County, page 53, says: 
"In 1821, Thomas Davee put up a store and potash factory 
and commenced to trade in 1822. He was the finst merchant 
in Dover. He was town clerk for the year 1823 and for 
several 3'ears afterwards." XTndoubtedly he was a farmer 
with his other vocations, for among the sheep marks in these 
records appears the following: "Thomas Davee, mark of 
sheep: a square crop off each ear and a hole in each ear. 
Rec. and recorded Mar. 7, 1828." 

Dover was then a part of Penobscot County and the first 
deed to him is recorded in Peno])scot records, vol. 9, page 
437, from Stephen Young. It conveyed lot No. 13, R. 4. 
He was an extensive owner of real estate in the new town at 
one time and was for some 3'ears the largest land owner 
except the proprietors. He also acquired large interests in 
upper Piscataquis lands, owning considerable in common 
with the Vaughans and Charles Blanchard of Portland. 

In 1831, he and Charles Blanchard bought township No. 3, 
range 3, of the Bingham purchase. This was incorporated 
as a town March 17, 1831, and was called I>lanchard in lionor 
of Mr. Blanchard, Mr. Davee's joint partner in this enter- 
prise. This was then a pai't of Somerset County. It is 
evident that his intention was immediately to unite his for- 
tunes with the town where he was so large an owner, but his 
business interests at Dover were such that he did not move 
his famih' and permaneiitlx' locate there until April, 1833. 
Blanchard antl Davee for a time carried on a large lumber 
business there, besides trading and operating mills. 



PISCATAOUIvS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTvS. 69 

He was interested in political affairs and while a resident 
of Blanchard and until his death was ver}' successful in this 
respect. He belonged to the Democratic part}' and was said 
to have been at one time the most influential and popular 
man in the part}- in Kastern Maine. He was a niend:)er of 
the Maine House of Representatives in 1820-27 and of the 
Maine Senate, 1880-32. In 1835 he was again elected to a 
seat in the Maine lyCgislature and was chosen speaker of the 
House of Representatives. He was appointed sheriff of 
Somerset County by Governor Dunlap, February 24, 1835, 
and resigned the speakership February 20, Jonathan Cilley 
of Thoniaston being elected in his steatl. This was an 
important move in his career as a public man, for the office 
of sheriff was then of much local consequence and he thus 
had the appointment of a large nund)er of deputies. He 
immediately became a candidate in his party for Congress 
and was nominated and elected and served in the National 
House of Representatives in 1837-41. He served on the 
committee of invalid pensions and on several important 
special committees while a member of Congress. During the 
session of 1839 he presented man}- petitions from his constitu- 
ents in Somerset County, "praying Congress not to admit 
any new state into the Union, whose con.stitution tolerates 
slavery." One of the largest of these petitions was from 
Cyrus Packard and others of Blanchard, which Mr. Davee 
presented February 18, 1839. 

From a perusal of the Congressional Records of that 
period, it does not seem that Mr. Davee took an active part 
in the debates, but his name appears with frequency in the 
presentation of petitions, claims and resolves, affecting the 
material interests of his constituents, who were many of them 
poor settlers in sparsely inhal)ited communities. It is evi- 
dent that he was diligent in his labors for them and faithful 
to every trust. One of these petitions was for reimbursement 
for injuries received at Madawaska and was presented to 
Congress by Mr. Davee, January 7, 1839; it was from E. S. 
Greeley of Dover (now in Piscataquis Count)) who states 



70 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

therein that he was appointed b}- the commissioners of Penob- 
scot Count3^ by authority of law, to take the census of Mada- 
waska, a portion of the disputed boundary between this 
country and Great Britain; that he attempted to perform 
that service and in doing so was imprisoned b}' the British 
authorities for a great length of time; that he suffered 
greatly in health and pecuniary resources, and therefore now 
prays Congress to allow him such compensation as they may 
deem proper. 

Piscataquis County was incorporated in ISoS and Blanchard 
included therein. Having been elected to the National Con- 
gress two terms he was not a candidate for re-election for the 
new county. In 1841 he was elected once more to a seat in 
the Senate of Maine. His death occurred on the anniversary 
of his birthday, December 9, 1841. 

Thomas S. PuUen was elected to fill the vacancy caused by 
his death. In the Senate, January 19, 1842, Senator Pullen 
introduced resolves relating to the late senator-elect, Thomas 
Davee, one of which says: "He presented an eminent 
instance of the successful performance of high and diflficult 
trusts and never fell short of the hopes of his friends. He 
was courteous, affectionate and ])ure." 

He was not a public speaker in the common acceptance of 
the term, but it is said that he possessed executive ability to 
an eminent degree, and had the tact, sagacity, sound judg- 
ment and magnetic qualities which are always essential in 
the leaders of men. All agree that he was of undoubted 
integrity and uprightness of character. He was favorably 
mentioned by the part}' leaders in the state as a candidate for 
governor, and had he not been stricken down early in life he 
would undoubtedly have been elected to this high ofhce. 
Previous to his decease he acquired property in Monson and 
was interested in business enterprises there and intended to 
change his residence to that place. His remains lie in the 
old Monson burying-ground near the Congregational church. 



LOUIS ANNANCE. 



LOUIS ANNANCE. 



For more than forty \'ears there lived at Greenville village, 
at the foot of MoOvSehead Lake, in Piscatataquis County, an 
Indian named Louis Annance, who, at one period of his life, 
was a chief of the St. Francis tribe of Indians, which tribe 
was once one of the most vigorous and powerful of the 
Aboriginal tribes of North America. During the time that 
his home was at this place, he was known throughout this 
portion of Maine as a somewhat remarkable character. 

He was a man of marked natural ability and superior 
intelligence and was noted for his kind and generous disposi- 
tion, his genial and pleasant manners, unimpeachable integ- 
rity and strict morality. While possessing all of these traits 
of a noble and refined manhood, he, at the same time, always 
retained the natural instincts and peculiarities of his race; 
for he loved the lone hunting-grounds of his fathers and 
devoted many autumns and winters to the adventurous hunt 
and exciting chase. 

He was a trne child of nature, endowed with faculties that 
enabled him to fully appreciate her mysteries, wonders and 
grandeur. His stern countenance and venerable and com- 
manding form became familiar to all wdio visited the lake 
regions for many summers ; for he was a frequent habitue of 
the haunts of the sportsmen and tourists. 

A century or more ago, the vSt. Francis Indians in the 
Canadas were a poweful tribe, who were justly proud of their 
lineage and valor. For a long series of years, Francis Joseph 
Annance was their chief, and while he was a daring and 
victorious chieftain in war, he was humane and benevolent in 
times of peace. 



72 PISCATAOUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

He had two sons : Noel, and L,ouis who is the subject of 
this sketch. 

Ivouis was born August 25, 1794, where is now the town of 
St. Francis, Count}' of Yaniaska, in the Province of Quebec. 
He received a Catholic tuition from the Jesuits in his neigh- 
borhood, who subsequently procured his admission to a 
school in Hanover, New Hampshire, wliere he was prepared 
for a college course ; but as he was about to enter college, 
the war of 1812 was declared, and he was summoned to his 
home in Canada to serve with his tribe under the British 
government. He was engaged in that war three 3-ears. 
His brother Noel had command of all the Indian forces dur- 
ing that war and both were noted for their bravery and dar- 
ing in battle. 

At this time his people were all Catholics; but Louis, after 
devoting considerable thought to the subject, became con- 
vinced that the priesthood and church were serious impedi- 
ments in the way of any intellectual or moral advancement 
of his race, and about the year 1817 he publicly renounced 
Catholicism, severed his connection with that body, became a 
Protestant and joined the Congregationalists. 

At about this time he became by the laws or rules of his 
tribe successor to his father as chief and ruler, but having 
become an avowed Protestant and his religious convictions 
subjecting him to some persecution and annoyance, he, dur- 
ing the year 1818, removed to Hanover, New Hampshire. 
Here he connected himself with the Methodists and was a 
member of one of their churches at the time of his death. 
He also united with the Masonic fraternity and was made a 
master mason by North Star Lodge of Lancaster, New 
Hampshire, in the year 1834. 

The secretary of North Star Lodge, in a conununication to 
Albert P\ Jackson, master of Doric Lodge of Monson, under 
date of November 3, 1876, writes that, "some of our oldest 
masons recollect Brother Annance who was made a mason 
here, and say they have sat in a lodge with him." Not long 
after, and probably about the years 1835 and 1836, in some of 



PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGIMKNTS. 73 

his hunting expeditionvS, he wandered into Northern Maine 
as far as INIoosehead Lake, and was charmed b}^ the solitude 
of that wild and unbroken forestry, and ever afterward main- 
tained habitation near its shadowy approaches. 

He died at his home in Greenville, December 25, 1875, and 
the funeral services were conducted b}- Masonic lodges. His 
last days were made pleasant and happy by the kind hand of 
fraternal friendship. His remains repose in the Greenville 
cemetery, under the shade of the maple and the cedar from 
the woodland which he loved so well, and a monument, 
erected by his brothers of the mystic tie, marks his grave. 
This monument was placed there b}- Free Masons from the 
various lodges in Piscataquis Count)', with appropriate cere- 
monies, on the fourth da^^ of October, 1876, which were 
participated in l)y Doric L,odge of Monson, under a dispensa- 
tion granted by Albert Moore, Grand Master of the Grand 
Lodge of Maine, September 30, 1876. The late Honorable 
Sumner A. Patten, then of Monson and later of Skowhegan, 
delivered an oration upon this occasion which was an elo- 
quent tribute to his memory. 

I subjoin the following extracts from Mr. Patten's address: 

"Although belonging to a race for the most part wanting 
in the grace and polish of education, he availed himself of 
some opportunity for mental culture thrown in his way in 
early life, and made considerable progress in the arts and 

sciences Man}- of the characteristics of his race 

exhibited themselves in his life, despite the influences of the 
schools and early association with the whites, even down to 
ripe old age. He loved the comnuinion and solitude of the 
woods, and most of his time, after abandoning literary ]:>ur- 
suits, till the infirmities of age pressed heavily upon him, 
was spent in roaming the forests in pursuit of game." 

For the erection of this monument nuich was due to 
the efforts of the late Captain Abner T. Wade, formerly a 
prominent member of this order, residing in vSangerville, in 
Piscataquis County. 



74 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

In the month of August, in the year 1874, when there was 

" O'er tlie sky 
The silvei\y haze of suniiner drawn, "" 

the writer, with a party of "outers," camped for a few days 
on the shore, at the head of Moosehead Lake, near a primi- 
tive abode which, for a few days, was the temporary home of 
lyouis Annance. 

An interview with him was easily obtained. And there, 
in a late hour of " stilly twilight," under aged forest trees 
and amid the 

" Music of l)irds and rustling of Youiig boujihs, 
And sound of swaying brandies, and the voice 
Of distant waterfalls," 

I enjoyed for an hour a connnunion with this venerable man 
and heard his life history from his own lips and listened with 
deep interest to his views upon \'arious topics connected with 
the American Indians. 

He stated to me that his brother Noel at one time collected 
records of all the various dialects of the numerous tribes east 
of the Rocky Mountains. Louis devoted much time to the 
study of these languages, which led him to the belief that 
they originally sprung from one source. His theory derived 
therefrom was that there once lived upon this continent a 
different and a more advanced race of people than those 
whom Columl)US discovered and that the arts once flourished 
among his distant ancestors. 

His idea was that they Ijecame corrui)t and demoralized 
and lo.st their power in much the same manner as have other 
nations in other ages, and with a serious expression upon his 
countenance, he referred to this as "a warning to the white 
men's governments on every shore." /\nd it seemed to me 
that the spirit of this aged man was weighted with the errors, 
oppressions and sorrows of his race, and that the glimpses 
which education had enabled him to obtain of tlie jjossibili- 
ties of a grander and higher life, had increased this soul 
burtlen as his mintl became more potent to realize and appre- 



PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. ID 

ciate the true condition of his people. And I was impressed 
with the thought that as the smoke and flame of the old 
chief's campfire were blended together in their ascension to 
the heavens, so in his mind were mingled the joys and griefs 
of a once strong, proud and manly race, weak only because 
of their inability to grasp the knowledge of a new and 
strange world. And a phantasm made me see in the weird 
treetops the spectral forms of departed warriors silenth' 
watching over their former comrade, waiting only for the dis- 
solution of mortality to guide him to their eternal and peace- 
ful hunting grounds. 



LEONARD HILTON. 



LEONARD HILTON. 



The death of Honoral)le I^eoiiard Hilton of Greenville, 
removed from among us a highly esteemed citizen. 

Mr. Hilton was born in the town of Kingsbury, in this 
county, about the year 1839. He was a man of superior 
intelligence, a real lover of books, familiar with the best 
authors in English literature, possessing a discriminating 
taste in literary subjects which he continued to cultivate 
through life. 

He was educated in the connnon schools and at Athens 
and Anson academies in this state. For several years he was 
a successful teacher of schools. He served in the Union 
arni}^ in the late war for nearly four years, and at its close 
re-enlisted in the Tenth United States Artiller}', remaining 
with it for about three years, serving as lieutenant a part of 
the time, making in all some .seven years of military service. 

The Hiltons of Kingsbury have long been one of the lead- 
ing families of Western Piscataquis, well known as people of 
integrity and sterling qualities. They trace their genealog}' 
back to the early Pilgrims of New England. The ancestor 
of the Kingsbury Hiltons settled in Cornville, in Somerset 
County, when there were but twelve inhabitants in that 
township. The late Judge Hilton of New York, once famous 
for his connection with the A. T. Stewart estate, and General 
Benjamin F. Butler's mother, both belonged to the Cornville 
branch of the Hilton family. 



78 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

Mr. Hilton was for manj^ years a familiar figure in Repub- 
lican county and state conventions, always taking a lively 
interest in political issues and often engaging in local con- 
tests. He served as count}- commissioner for three years and 
was a representative to the Maine Legislature in the session 
of 1881. During all of the time that he resided in King.sbury 
after attaining to the years of manhood, he held important 
town offices, and later, while a resident of Greenville, was 
also prominent in the public affairs of that town. In all of 
his services as a county and town officer, his pu1)lic acts 
reflect unblemished honor and faithfulness to every trust. 
He was a member of the Masonic 'fraternity and of the 
G. A. R. 

When he moved from Kingsbury he went to Chesuncook 
Lake, where for several years he was engaged as manager of 
Mr. J. H. Eveleth's property in that wild and picturesque 
section of the Maine woods, afterwards locating at Greenville, 
where he remained until his death. Although a close student 
of books, he was equally as devoted to the great book of 
nature, loved life in the woods, was well versed in forest lore, 
and had a profound knowledge of the woods and all of the 
fur, fin and feather kind, that was founded upon his own 
observations. He was quite a naturalist in his wa}', and 
enjoj-ed considering and discussing all questions pertaining 
to our wild animals, their haunts and habits. While he did 
not agree with all that was done in the w-ay of game legisla- 
tion, he was deepl\- interested in these matters and was 
especially so when a member of the legislature. I have 
many times consulted him regarding the.se subjects and have 
often relied upon his judgment and advice in endeavoring to 
arrive at conclusions about the many perplexing questions 
which are continually arising regarding then). 

He was a man of strong convictions and of a positive 
nature, and yet a genial, social comrade and ever a gentle- 
man, whether in the backwoodsman's camp or in the more 



PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 79 

cultured walks of life. In hip religious views he was of the 
liberal order, believing that it was 

" Xot well to prate of creeds, 
Biit better to write one's life in noble deeds." 

M3' relations with him were for years close and intimate 
and our intercourse pleasant and fraternal. I long knew him 
as a true man and a loyal friend, and I felt sad at his going 
out from among us. 

The Angel of Death, whose wings have so oft shadowed 
our count\' in recent years, will not soon summon to the last 
accounts a truer man than was mv friend, Leonard Hilton. 



ADAMS HUSE MERRILL. 



ADAMS HUSE MERRILL. 



Adams Huse Merrill was born in Belfast, Maine, April 
3, 1805, and died at his home in Williamsbnrg, Maine, 
November 27, 1888. He was the pioneer in the roofing slate 
bnsiness of Piscataquis, now recognized as one of Maine's 
most important industries. Although Mr. Merrill never 
received au}' but a public school education and did not 
attend school after he was seventeen years of age, 5^et he was 
of studious habits and became well informed by an extensive 
course of reading and was in man}- respects a man of superior 
intelligence and high character. 

When sixteen years of age his father moved on to a farm 
in Williamsburg. His finst business in life was that of a 
farmer. About 1840 he engaged in lumbering on the east 
branch of the Penobscot river and was successful in his 
undertakings. He resided for a time at East Corinth and 
built there the fine residence now owned by Honorable John 
Morrison. 

In 1852 he moved from Corinth to Williamsburg, where he 
bought the land where his quarrj-ing operations have since 
been carried on, of two Welshmen, William Hughs and 
Benjamin Williams, and that year he commenced the business 
of quarrying roofing slate. He also purchased other tracts 
of land in that town and became an extensive land owner 
there. 

When he entered upon the business of manufacturing 
slate, there was no way of transporting it to market except 
by drawing it to tide water at Bangor with mules and horses 
and then shipping it to Boston by vessels. Almost any other 



82 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

person would have been discouraged from attempting to 
build up a new enterprise under such circumstances. But 
his indomitable energy triumphed and he lived to reap a 
bountiful harvest for his labors in those dark da^-s. 

When the sul)ject of l)uilding the Bangor & Piscataquis 
railroad into the Piscataquis valley was first agitated he was 
foremost in his efforts to secure it. He was one of the very 
first to call the attention of the pul^lic to the demands that 
existed for a raih'oad. His letters to the newspapers at the 
time relative to this matter and to the resources of this 
county, aided very materially in bringing about this result. 
He has represented his district in the Legislature of Maine 
and held public offices in his town. For many years he was 
a prominent Republican personage in county, district and 
state conventions, and always took a lively interest in the 
welfare of that party. He was for many years an active and 
worthy member of the Congregational church. He married 
the eldest daughter of Captain Ebenezer Greenlief, who was 
in former years known all over Maine as a prominent land 
surveyor. 



SUMNER A. PATTER 



SUMNER A. PATTEN. 



For main- years Sumner A . Patten was a prominent and 
well known citizen of Piscataquis County, a leading physician 
and active in public and political affairs. He was born in 
Skowhegan, Maine, December G, 1820, and first settled as a 
physician in that part of the town of Shirley that was formerly 
a part of the old town of Wilson. He remained there but a 
short time when he moved into Mon.son in the year 1852, 
where he resided until the year 1879, when he returned to his 
native town (Skowhegan), where he lived until his death, 
which occurred December 19, 1898. He was prominent in 
Masonic circles, having received all of the degrees of this 
order. He was the first candidate who received the degrees 
in Mariners Lodge of vSearsport, Maine, where he was made 
a Ma.son November 18, 1851. He was one of the charter 
members of Kineo Lodge of Abbot, and later he was a charter 
member of Doric Lodge of Monson and its first Worshipful 
Master. He was a successfxil physician in Monson and 
Skowhegan and during the Civil War was a member of the 
Board of Examining vSurgeons at Bangor. Besides holding 
town offices he served two terms in the Maine Senate with 
marked al)ility and was always one of the leaders in the 
Republican party in Piscataquis County. He was a familiar 
figure for many years in county, district and state conven- 
tions and was a public speaker of more than ordinary ability. 
He has delivered Masonic, Memorial Day and literary 
addresses in various parts of the State and his .services as 
such were always sought after. 

He was a profound student of historical, literary and 
political subjects, an interesting conversationalist and a 
companionable and entertaining gentleman in all respects. 
In religious matters he affiliated with the Methodists but was 
extremelv liberal in his own theoloo-ical views. 



HIRAM STEVENS MAXIM. 



HIRAM STEVENS MAXIM. 



In the world's march of civilization the captains of science 
and the great contrivers and inventors in mechanism and in 
the arts have ever been in the van. The inventors have been 
helpers in the elevation of mankind as much as have the dis- 
coverers of new continents or the leaders in literature or in 
political and religious fields. 

That one of the world's greatest inventors, the peer of a 
Newton, a Morse and a Franklin and a compeer of Edison, 
was born in Sangerville, in Piscataquis County in the State 
of Maine, should be reason enough wh}' those of us who are 
natives of the same borough may be pardoned for an indul- 
gence in some pride that such is the fact. 

No white man ever settled in what is now the town of 
Sangerville until about the year 1800, and it was not incor- 
porated as a town until June 13, 1814. Until recent years it 
has been only a town of thrifty farmers, an excellent type, 
however, of New England's hard}', intelligent agricultural 
communities. 

Although with perhaps the exception of the subject of this 
sketch none have gone forth from Sangerville who have 
acquired what is usually termed a national reputation, yet in 
the national armies, in the spheres of business and education 
and in the professions many of her sons in various parts of 
our nation have been successful and have attained to eminent 
rank. 

Hiram vStevens Maxim was born in that part of Sangerville 
known as Brockway's Mills, in what was formerly called the 
Nickerson house, February 5, 1840. This is yet in exist- 



S6 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGIMENTS. 

ence, being a small, weather-beaten frame house. For man}' 
3'ears after the Maxims moved out of it, it was owned and 
occupied by one of the Brockway family. 

About the \-ear 1784 Samuel Maxim and his brother 
Ephraim Maxim emigrated from Wareham, Massachusetts, 
to New Sandwich, in the Province of Maine, afterwards 
(1798) incorporated as the town of Wayne. Sulisequently 
their father, Nathan Maxim, moved from Wareham to Wayne 
and resided with them nnU\ his death. 

Isaac Maxim, the father of Hiram, was the son of Samuel 
and was born in the town of Strong in the vState of Maine, 
October 16, 1814, and died in Wayne, April 29, 1883. He 
moved into what is now Piscataquis County before the county 
was incorporated. He married Harriet Boston Stevens in 
Blanchard, Maine, October 14, 1888. Hiram was the eldest 
son of a family of eight children. 

Isaac Maxim resided with his family for many years in 
several different towns in Piscataquis County before his 
departure for Wayne. My own recollection of him is that of 
a man of full height, well proportioned, with keen black eyes, 
a ma.ssive forehead, with hair and a lengthy beard whitened 
by the frosts of many winters, giving him a truly patriarchal 
appearance. Although never having had Init a limited 
education he was, during his life, a profound student of such 
subjects as engaged his attention. His fa\-orite themes of 
thought were of matters that ]iertained to the mechanical arts 
and inventions and also scientific and theological subjects. 

As his son Hiram said of him in after years in an interview 
published in the Pall Mall Gazette, "he was a philosopher if 
there ever was one." Yet he was a dreamer more than he 
was a practical man of affairs. It was from him that Hiram 
received the first impression of the principle in mechanism 
upon which is founded the famous Maxim gun that has made 
the name of Hiram Stevens Maxim world renowned and has 
])laced him in the ranks of the most eminent inventors. But 
while the yerm came from the father, it was the .son's genius 



PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND PKAGMENTS. 87 

that developed and perfected it and made it of practical use 
to the armies of Europe. 

Isaac Maxim for many years l)efore his death l>egan and 
pursued an investigation of what is known as spiritualism and 
became a believer in and advocate of the so-called spiritual 
phenomena. There is yet a tradition extant among some of 
the older residents of Sangerville that Isaac often referred to 
his invention of a gun that was revealed to him by occult 
forces and that it woidd be so powerful anil deadly in its 
works that its practical effect would be to eventually abolish 
war and hasten the millennium. 

Hiram was, as a youth, overflowing with latent exuberance 
and energy which oftimes found vent in pranks and boyish 
schemes which annoyed and sometimes confounded the wiser 
ones around him. In the common schools which he attended 
he was more or less of a problem to the teachers in their 
efforts to maintain the oldtime school government. He early 
displayed that love for the arts and mechanical construction 
which has developed within him so successfully in his later 
3-ears. 

On the breaking out of the rebellion Hiram was living in 
Dexter, in the State of Maine, and joined the first company 
that was raised there, but that being when our statesmen 
were suppressing the rebellion in a few months' time, it was 
not every company that was raised that was able to go to the 
front, as was the case a year later. His company was one of 
those not wanted in Washington and it was shorth' after- 
wards disbanded. 

About this time he went to Fitchburg, Mass., being obliged 
to borrow money to pay his railroad fare from Newport, Me., 
to Boston. Arriving there he began work in a shop where 
scientific instruments were made and was afterwards employed 
in a factorv where gas machines for illuminating residences 
were manufactured. It was while at work there that he per- 
fected his first invention that was patented. It was a 
machine for illuminating with gas that was much more 



ob PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

simple and more valuable than any then known. He, how- 
ever, had a lawsuit with liis employer regarding this patent, 
which resulted in Mr. Maxim's favor. 

From that time onward his career as an inventor has been 
one of unrivaled success. An English scientific publication, 
the "Industries and Iron." in its issue of March 23, 1894, 
published an elaborate article in reference to Mr. Maxim. 
In 1881, he first went to England where he has since remained 
a large portion of the time. Again referring to the fact that 
it was from his father that he first derived the idea of the 
now celebrated Maxim gun, I quote from an address which 
he delivered in London, December 11, 1896, before the Royal 
United Service Institution in England upon "The Automatic 
System of Fire Arms: its History and Development." 

In this address he says: "In 1854 I was living with my 
parents in a little place known as Orneville in the State of 
Maine. Orneville was one of the poorest townships to be 
found in the state, but there was an excellent water-power, 
where my father had a grist mill and a wood-working shop 
provided with circular saws, lathes and other wood-working 
machinery. At that time my father conceived the idea of 
working a machine gun." At this time he made drawings 
and models of such a gun as he and his father had contrived 
and they were submitted to one Ramsdell, a gun maker in 
Bangor, Maine, but nothing came of the venture and it was 
many years after that Hiram fully developed the plan of the 
automatic gun. 

Mr. Maxim is now residing on a magnificent landed estate 
near London in luigland, and is a person well known in every 
nation in the world. In a letter to the writer dated 18 
Queens Gate Place, London, S. \V., January 20, 1898, he 
says: "The Maxim gun is being made at our own works in 
England, vStockholm, vSweden and Placencia in vSpain. They 
are also made by Krupp & Ludwig of Berlin, Banquand of 
Paris and Armstrong in lingland, by the British government 
in Ivngland, the American Ordnance Company of Bridge- 



PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 89 

port, Conn., and the United States government at Washing- 
ton, D. C. The present name of the firm is Vickers' Sons & 
Maxim, and we employ altogether at our various works about 
14,000 hands. The total value of our works, working capi- 
tal, etc., in all parts of the world is about forty millions of 
dollars." 

Mr. Maxim has been decorated by the French government 
and has also been decorated and received royal honors from 
the Portugese , and vSpanisli governments, b}- the Sultan of 
Turkey and the Emperor of China. 

Some one has said that the people of this world are divided 
into two classes, viz. : "The men who have seen visions and 
the herd that has laughed at the visions and visionary." 
Isaac Maxim saw visions and dreamed dreams, but I shall 
alwaj^s remember him with reverence and respect, for he was 
not only a man of great intellect but thoroughly honest and 
upright and gave inspiration to a family of inventors who are 
not dreamers but pre-eminentl}' men of affairs. Hiram 
Maxim is a resident of the world and not of any one common- 
wealth, and tleals and makes contracts with governments, 
sovereigns and potentates that are reckoned by millions. 



CAPTAIN THOMAS ROBINSON. 



CAPTAIN THOMAS ROBINSON. 



Thomas Robinson was born at Riviere du lyoup, in the 
Province of Onebec, October 31, 1830. He resided at Green- 
ville, Maine, at the foot of INIoosehead Lake, for many years, 
and for a long time he was captain of varions steamboats 
which ply that lake. He died December 30, 1886, and was 
buried by Doric Lodge, F. & A. M., January 2, 1887, the 
Rev. Charles Davison being the officiating clergyman. 

Captain Robinson was beloved and respected not only l)}- 
his brothers of the mj'stic tie, but by all who enjo3'ed the 
pleasure of his acquaintance. He was born a true gentleman, 
with all that word implies. His genuine politeness, his faith- 
fulness to his pu1)lic trust, his honesty and uprightness of 
character, his genial and pleasant manner and generous acts 
to all, whether humble or high in life, were proverbial in this 
entire region as well as among the thousands from distant 
realms and cities, who, when the woods are green, are annual 
visitors to the lake which knew him so well. He was a good 
citizen and neighbor, a kind and affectionate husband and 
parent, and a friend to all. 

There were many sincere mourners among his neighbors 
and friends when he was stricken down by the grim reaper. 
And ever}' member of Doric Lodge on that bleak Januar}- day 
when we committed his remains to the mother earth, felt that 
he had lost a true brother and the order a worthy member. 



FRAGMENTS. 



FRAGMENTS. 



A COURT HOU.SE DEDICATION. 

The Count}' of Piscataquis was incorporated in 1838. 

The old court house was erected in 1844 by T. H. Chamber- 
lain at a co,st of $2,900. In 1885-6, the County Commis- 
sioners, Jesse Barber, Caleb J. Ford and Augustus W. Gil- 
man, under a resolve of the legislature of 1885, obtained 
$12,000 and expended this together with some $2,000 in addi- 
tion, in enlarging this building, making it one of the most 
convenient and attractive court houses to be found in Maine. 

On Thursday, February 18, 1886, this new building was 
dedicated by appropriate exerci.ses. A large attendance of 
citizens from various parts of the county were present and 
music was furnished by Dj-er's Band. 

Alexander M. Robinson presided and speeches were made 
by Josiah Crosby of Dexter, Augustus G. Lebroke of Fox- 
croft, Charles A. Everett of Dover, Joseph D. Brown of Fox- 
croft, John F. Sprague of Monson and Joseph B. Peaks of 
Dover. 

Letters were read from vSamuel F. Humphrey, Daniel F. 
Davis and Albert W. Paine of Bangor and Thomas H. B. 
Pierce of Dexter. The speeches and letters pertained to 
hi.storical reminiscences of the old court house, of the county 
and of the Piscataquis Bar. 

The exercises were exceedingly interesting. 



94 I'ISCATAOUIS BIOGKAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

CHIKF JUSTICK APPI.ETON AS A SEBEC LAWYER. 

The Honoral)le John Appleton who afterwards became one 
of the eminent jurists of New England and who was for 
thirty-one years a member of the vSuprenie Court of Maine 
and for twenty-one years its able and honored Chief Justice, 
made his debut as a practicing lawyer in the little picturesque 
village of Sebec, in Piscataquis County, that peacefully 
nestles at the foot of beautiful Sebec Lake. He remained 
there and was an active participant in the affairs of the new 
town and attended to the litigation of the brave and hardy 
pioneers of that day and section for six years, when he 
removed to Bangor, which was ever afterwards his home. 

It was fated that he should hold his last nisi pTius term at 
Dover, in the same county where he commenced his memor- 
able professional career. This was the September Term, 
1888. As the moment approached when it would become his 
duty to make the final adjournment of his last term of court, 
a feeling of sadness prevailed among the lawyers, the officers 
of the court and the spectators assembled in the old Piscata- 
quis court-room. 

Resolutions expressing the respect and esteem of the mem- 
bers of the Piscataquis Bar A.ssociation had previously been 
prepared and were presented to Judge Appleton at this time 
in an eloquent manner by Augustus G. Lebroke who had 
Ijeen selected for this purpose by the members of the Bar. 
They were feelingly and beautifully responded to bv Judge 
Appleton. 



ALEXANDER GREENWOOD. 

Thomas Greenwood, a weaver, was born in England and 
settled in Cambridge Village in Massachusetts, in 1667. He 
married Hannah, daughter of John Ward. Their son John 
married Elizabeth Jackson and settled in Newton, Mass. 
John Greenwood, the son of John and Elizabeth Jackson 



PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHV AND FKACrMKXTS. 0") 

Greeiuvood, moxed into the Province of Maine ami settletl on 
Alexander Shejdierd's land, now the town of Hebron. 

Their son Alexander Greenwood became a land surveyor 
and a citizen of prominence in his day. He lotted the towns 
of Woodstock and Greenwood in Oxford County, and the 
latter town was named for him. He represented the town of 
Hebron in the iL^eneral court of Massachusetts in the years 
1S09-11-12-14, and was also a member of the Maine Consti- 
tutional Convention. He moved into the town of Monson 
in 1822 or 28, and lotted out Monson and other towns in this 
county. Greenwood Pond and Greenwood Mountain in 
picturesque P!lliottsville were both named for him. His name 
is a prominent oiie on the early records of Monson. 

In 1S27 he was killed b\- the falling of a tree near where 
Williams' mills now are in the town of Willimantic. His 
remains are buried in the old Monson village churchxard, 
and strange to say, no stone of any kind marks his last 
resting place. 



H.\XNIBAI. HAMI.IX AS A PISCATAQUIS PISCATOK. 

Haxxib.vi. Hamlix was Maine's great commoner. He 
was loved by the people because he was one of them. When- 
ever he appeared among them, it was always as an equal and 
never with any airs of superiority. He was everywhere 
beloved and honored for his qualities as a statesman and as 
an honest, fearless and upright leader in public affairs. He 
was also famous in his own county and all through the upper 
Piscataquis valley as a devoted di.sciple of Izaak Walton. 

Nature has had in all of the flood of years but few sincere 
lovers who have not been anglers for fish in one way or another. 
Angling develops the philosopher. Mr. Handin was one of 
the greatest of philosophers and was not an exception to this 
rule for he was also an expert angler. He could cast a flv 
with skill, but was no more of an aristocrat in his affairs with 
the finnv kind than with mankind. 



on PTSCATAOnS KIOCKAPHV AND KKAGMKNTS. 

He sought for ])ractical results in both cases, and could 
derive pleasure with the crude fishing gear borrowed from 
the barefooted boy as well as with the most costl}' rod and 
reel. He was familiar with the silent homes of the trout 
throughout this region. I doubt if there is a lake or pond 
and but few brooks within the town of Monson where he 
did not at some time during his life tempt the wary trout with 
fly or bait. He was also a frequent visitor to Elliottsville 
and to Moosehead I^ake and other resorts in this vicinitw 

I often hear dwellers on the borders of our great forests and 
near our lakes relate interesting reminiscences of these fish- 
ing trips of Mr. Hamlm, which is conclusive that he was a 
true lover of the "gentle art" that has charmed so many of 
the sons of men of high and low degree all along through the 
centuries. An illustration of how the simplicity of Hannil^al 
Hamlin's life impressed itself upon all with whom he came in 
contact, inspiring all with a feeling of comradeship with him, 
is found in the incident which I have oft heard related here, 
of the uncouth Monson youth of nineteen years who was 
once fishing with others for trout in the winter time through 
the ice in Goodale Pond in Monson. Not many rods distant 
was the ex-Vice President with a part\- of Bangor gentlemen 
also engaged in the same pastime. As is usual in winter 
fishing, they were all using " live ])ait " which consisted of 
small chubs and shiners carried to the fishing grounds in 
pails. Of a sudden the meditations of the statesman were 
disturbed by the high-pitched and harsh tones of the uncouth 
Mon.son youth, addressing him thus: "vSay, Uncle Handin, 
can't you sell me some chubs. I'm all out." 

What would have disconcerted some gentlemen did not in 
the slightest degree affect him. Without so much as a 
smile, Mr. Hamlin in the most pleasant and natural tones 
assented to his recpiest, divided chubs with him and politel>- 
declined the proffered pay. Nothing in Mr. Hamlin's 
manner suggested to the uncouth xonth that he had done 
anvthinu unconventional or unusual. 



PISCATAOUIvS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 97 

PIvSCATAOIUS IN THE MAINp; CON.STITUTIONAE CONVENTION. 

The Articles of Separation, whereby Maine became a State, 
were passed b}^ the General Court of Massachusetts at the 
session of 1819 and were approved by the Governor of the 
Mother Commonwealth June 19, 1819. 

The Constitutional Convention, which convened and acted 
under and by virtue of these articles, met at Portland, 
Monday, October 11, 1819. Those members who then 
represented that part of Penobscot County which is now 
Piscataquis, in this body were: Samuel Chamberlain of 
Foxcroft, William I,owney of Sebec, Benjamin C. Goss of 
Sangerville, Joseph Kelsey of Guilford, and Eleazer W. Snow 
of Atkinson. 

x\mong the other members who represented other counties 
and who were identified with us were Sanford Kingsbury of 
Gardiner, who founded the town of Kingsbury; Joseph E. 
Foxcroft of New Gloucester, and Alexander Greenwood of 
Hebron, subsequently a resident of Monson. 



THE MILLION ACRES. 

In old files of Maine newspapers and in old deeds and 
records of lands in Eastern Maine reference is often made to 
"the million acres" or the "million acre tract." 

July 1st, 1791, Samuel Phillips, lyconard Jarvis and John 
Read, for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, contracted in 
writing to sell to Col. Henry Jackson of Boston, and Royal 
Flint of New York, two million acres of land in the District 
of Maine, at ten cents per acre. (Col. Jackson commanded 
a regiment of Massachusetts soldiers during the Revolution.) 
July 25th, 1791, (same month) Jackson and Flint assigned 
their contract to William Duer of New York, and "Henry 
Knox, Secretary of the Department of War to the United 
States of America." 



98 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGINIENTS. 

In December, 1792, Duer and Knox assigned the contract 
to William Bingham of Philadelphia. January 28th, 1793, 
the above named Phillips, Jarvis and Read, (duly authorized 
by resolves of General Court) conve^-ed by sixteen deeds the 
above named two million acres of land to said William Bing- 
ham. One million acres is in the counties of Hancock and 
Washington except three to\Ynships in Penobscot, and was 
called "Bingham's Penobscot Purchase," (B. P. P.) "The 
other million acres was on both sides of the Kennebec River" 
and all in Somerset County except six townships in Piscata- 
quis and four and a half townships in Franklin, and was 
called "Bingham's Kennebec Purchase," (B. K. P.) The 
towns of Wellington, Kingsbur\- (now dis-incorporated) , 
Blanchard, the original town of vShirley before part of Wilson 
was annexed, and two townships called Squaw Mountain 
townships are the "Bingham towns" in Piscataquis County. 
The road from vShirley corner, north, is supposed to be on 
the old " Bingham " line for some two miles. 

In 1804, Wm. Bingham by will devised all his estate, real, 
personal and mixed, to Alexander Baring, Henry Baring, 
Robert Gilmore, Thomas Maine Willing and Charles Willing 
Hare. April 27th, 1807, the devisees gave a power of attor- 
ne}' to certain parties to act for them, so that William Bing- 
ham probably died between 1804 (date of will) and 1807. 
I learn that the two Barings, Alexander and Henry, married 
daughters of William Bingham. The name of "Million 
Acres" was given to the settleuient in Blanchard before its 
incorporation in 1831, as some of the oldest residents in 
Monson and vicinity may recollect. 

Date of sale of the townships comprising the towns in 
Piscataquis County: Wellington, Kingsbur\-, Blanchard, 
Shirley — William Bingham, 1793; Milo — Jonathan Ha.stings, 
1795; x\bbot, Guilford, Foxcroft, Sebec — Bowdoin College, 
179(5; Dover — Hallowell & Lowell, 1802; Sangerville — John 
S. Fazy, 1802; Atkinson — U. Sigourney, 1804; Williams- 
burg — William Dodd, 1804; Parkman, Williinantic — Sanuiel 



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Parkmaii. 1804; Brownville, Brown & Hills, 1805; Orne- 
ville — J. F. Boyd, 1805; Monson — Hebron & Monson (Mass.) 
Acadamies, 1811 ; Greenville — Saco Acadenn- and Saco Free 
Bridge, 181h ; Medford— J. P. Boyd and R. Oilman et als., 
1820. 



IN MEMORY OF A DOG. 

"Dollar" was the .somewhat unique name of my canine 
friend whose sudden death occurred at Monson, August 17, 
1892. While he never 1)\- an}- single act attempted to flatter 
me with the idea that I was fir.st in his affections, he for 
several 3-ears favored me with most kind attentions and in 
innumerable ways gave me pleasant a.ssurances that he was 
my friend and that his allegiance was true, steadfast and 
unselfish. While human friends would .sometimes prove 
false, his heart was always honest. I prized his friendship 
highly because it contained no atom of flattery or deception 
of anj'^ kind. 

Being only a dog he could not learn hypocrisv or dissem- 
bling in any form and existed in a world of absolute .sincerit)^ 
which state of existence is utterly incomprehensible to the 
human kind. As he was entirely sincere, his life was also 
one of perfect innocence. The world in which he lived had 
never undertaken to discriminate by comparison or otherwise 
betw-een good and evil. For this rea.son he knew no evil or 
wrong. 

Possessing an unusually affectionate and pleasant nature, 
he had numerous friends who miss his daily greetings and 
mourn his untimely loss. Probably no dog ever lived in 
Monson who had so large a circle of friends as Mr. Chapin's 
Dollar. His intelligence was of a superior order as compared 
with that of ordinary dogs. He was an original character 
and was noted for many peculiarities. One of his prominent 
characteristics was courage, which usuall}^ overbalanced his 



100 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

discretion. While experience taught him many lessons 
which he remembered with profit, he never overcame this one 
weakness, and it finally cost him his life. 

His indiscretions of this kind were generally forgiven b}- 
the dogs with whom he associated and he passed through 
many dangers unharmed ; but when he attacked the brutal 
hedgehog in the Brazierville woods he paid the penalty by 
his death. He had many virtues and no vices. He loved 
everyone, loved everything in the world, never hated anyone 
or anything, and he made the world better for his having 
lived in it, for he caused cheerfulness wherever he was. And 
yet, although a dog and always living the pure, honest and 
faithful life of a dog, even he was not perfect but inherited a 
fatal fault. 

I imagine he never had a human enemy. If such an one 
ever did exist, the person would be onl}^ an object of pity. 
One who could hate Dollar would have a bad heart. And 
yet, curiously enough, the theology of my 3'outh informs us 
that such a person would have an immortal soul, and that a 
heaven has been created for his reception, while the good 
dog, the embodiment of kindness, of love and of honesty, is 
robbed of a soul and refused a heaven. 



OUR SIUENT WARDS. 

"And God said let us iiiak<> man in our own iniaoe, after our li]<eness; 
and let them have dominion over tlie tisli of tlie sea, and over the fowl 
of the air. and over the eattle, ami over ail the <^arth, and over every 
creei)iu<i' liiinLi' that ci-eepeth upon the eartli." — (ien. 1 : 2(5. 

During the expiring days of the year last past (189G), I 
attended a farmers' institute, tinder the auspices of the Maine 
Board of Agriculture. 

While it was primarily for the promotion of agricultural 
interests, yet the eminent speakers in urging from the most 
learned and scientific standpoints what course of treatment 



PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 101 

for domestic animals would be the most profitable for the 
farmer, demonstrated clearly that such treatment would also 
promote the comfort of these animals, and make their lives, 
w'hile toiling as l^easts of burden for the husbandman, more 
pleasant and in closer harmony with the laws of nature. 

If this institute had occurred in the long, bright and 
charming da3's of sununertide instead of during the short, 
dismal and sad days of bleak December, the audience could 
have had from the windows of their audience room a vision 
of one of the most glorious panoramic views ever painted by 
the hand of Nature — a group of grand old mountains encir- 
cling lyake Onawa, clad in the verdant and primeval gar- 
ments of Maine forestry. 

These mountains, Onawa and other adjacent lakes and the 
country thereabouts, are the natural homes and permanent 
abiding places of the moose, the deer, the caribou, the bear 
and the salmon and trout. As I listened to these farming 
savants I thought, how strange, wonderful and awful a thing 
is life ! We knew nothing of its source, much less an^-thing 
of its course through eternity. The lights of inspiration and 
science, reflecting upon the impenetrable darkness and gloom 
of the unknown, reveal to us, however, certain facts. One of 
the most discernible of these to the finite vision is, that every 
speechless creature, whether now in the wild state or domesti- 
cated, is the ward of mankind under a decree of the Infinite 
Power. 

Finite law attempts to draw feeble and foolish distinctions. 
It makes a wolf of the dog, which is in fact the most domestic, 
the most faithful, the most lovable and tenderhearted animal 
on earth. The infinite laws are as Inroad as limitless space 
and endless time. Under them every human being is one of 
the guardians during his human lifetime of all of the animal 
kingdom, wliether confined and trained by man or roaming 
the wilds of nature. It matters not what it is, whether fur, 
fin or feather, whether wild or tame, the condition of our 
guardianship is the same. 



102 PISCATAQUIS BIOGRAPHY AND FRAGMENTS. 

The awful laws of the Infinite liave placed in our care 
every bird tliat flies heavenward and warbles to us in the 
gloaming; every fish in all of earth's waters; every animal 
of every kind and every reptile as w^ell. How faithfulh' we 
perform our duties toward these dumb wards can never be 
adjudicated upon by human courts. We receive our appoint- 
ment from the Infinite Power. Our final account as guardians 
must sometime be rendered to that Power. No human edicts 
can ever affect this infinite arrangement. What the compen- 
sation may be, how the rewards and penalties may be 
adjusted, we are not in this existence to be informed. It is 
only for us to know what are our terribly solemn obligations. 

The more intelligent man becomes the more fully does he 
realize this fact. We are becoming more and more real 
lovers of our silent wards. The love for greed may develop 
this love for animals. It would seem, however, that our good 
conduct would be rewarded, even though we are forced to 
treat them better because we gradually learn that it is more 
profitable to do so. 

It is a matter for rejoicing in heaven and on earth that men 
are becoming aware that their material interests are identical 
with the life, safety and happiness of their animal depend- 
ents. And men who are studying the problem of animal life 
as connected with human advancement are coming to know 
it more and more. Therefore a farmers' institute and a 
.sportsmen's convention are identical fundamentally. The 
only difference is that they are working on separate lines. 
One is devoloping the idea that the better we care for and 
protect the domesticated animals the more wealth they will 
yield to the husbandman. The other is demonstrating that 
a preservation of the undomesticated animals continually 
adds to the revenues of our State and that to wantonly des- 
troy them detracts therefrom. Both tend to bring us into 
harmony with the higher law upon which rests our whole 
relationship as guardians and wards with these animals, 
some of which are in fact, and all of which are in theory 
upon a lower plane of life than ourselves. 






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